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General Programming

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1. Type of control structure: CASE






2. Type ____ Error: False Positive






3. The information that is produced to solve the problem.






4. ____________ property: says that if a = b and b = c then a = c.






5. Statistical average






6. The information that is given and which items are important in solving the problem.






7. A reserved word for variable.






8. A fixed position within source code: _________






9. A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.






10. ____________ / divisor = quotient






11. Numbers that contain decimal points - can be any number including decimal numbers. Can be expressed as a scientific notation.






12. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






13. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






14. VAR and BEGIN and END are examples of _____ .






15. In a loop while construct the loop will be terminated upon the introduction of a ____________ ____________






16. Item of information necessary for a program or subprogram to perform its task.






17. Fixed number of similar data elements - each element can be retrieved through an index.






18. In a _________ language the entire program is converted to binary prior to the execution of the program






19. ____________ property: you can change the order of the numbers involved without changing the result






20. What are Sequence and Selection/Decision and Iteration/Repetition?






21. A formula developed to solve a problem






22. Statistical middle






23. _________ error: The program performs a task but it is not the task that was desired






24. Type of error: A violation of rules made by the programmer






25. Integer division is denoted by _____






26. ______ causes an advance to a new input line from which subsequent values will be read






27. base value of a binary number system?






28. for an "if" statement some languages require and "____________ _______" to close the selection group






29. Allocate memory when needed and return memory when done: _________ _________






30. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






31. Part of the program that may be repeated






32. The process of implementing in some programming language the variables (and structures) used to store the data and the algorithms for solving a problem.






33. Type of control structure: LOOP






34. An _________ language is a programming language where the programs written in that language are not translated or "compiled" into the machine code of the computer it is on - which then is directly executed by the host CPU but instead is indirectly ex






35. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






36. In Linear Programming ____________ variables are used to convert inequalities to equalities






37. One of a number of alternative actions is selected and executed.






38. The grammatical rules of the language.






39. ______ must have at least one digit before and at least one digit after the decimal`






40. Helpful debugging aids for _________ errors: control totals or control breaks or trace routines






41. The address of a memory location






42. A programming paradigm that uses data structures consisting of datafields and methods together with their interactions - to design applications and computer programs.






43. Any collection of data to be input to a program or output from a program.






44. ____________ is a measure of the amount of variation within the values of that variable taking account of all possible values and their probabilities or weightings (not just the extremes which give the range).






45. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






46. In algebraic expression the name of the storage location in which the result would be saved is expressed as ____________ .






47. A _________ is a group of instructions within a computer program that performs a specific function.






48. Information is placed into a storage location by means of an ____________ statement






49. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






50. Using only the two binary digits (bits) 0 and 1 to represent information in a computer.







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