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General Programming

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1. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






2. ____________ / divisor = quotient






3. :=? is an ________. Here the varaible to be assigned a value must appear on the left of the assignment operator and a legal expression must appear on the right side.






4. ____________ property: you can group numbers in any way without changing the answer






5. Statistical average






6. A fixed position within source code: _________






7. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






8. It controls the operation of the entire system and performs the arithmetic and logic operations and and stores and retrieves instructions and data.






9. It allocates storage for programs and data and carry out many other supervisory functions. It acts as an interface between the user and the machine.






10. In constant declarations to associate an identifier with a constant an sign is used






11. Any number that does not have a decimal in it.






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






13. Statistics: square root of variance






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






15. The place where the instructions and data are stored.






16. A reserved word for variable.






17. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






18. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






19. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






22. Statistical middle






23. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






25. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






26. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






27. Program Heading - Declaration Part (Label section - constant section - type section - variable section - subprogram section).






28. Outout and Input are _____






29. In Linear Programming a _________ is a means for simplifying the solution






30. The number of times a number goes into a divisor.






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






32. A _________ is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program - put in place for debugging purposes.






33. It is concern with checking that the algorithms and the program meet the problem's specification.






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






35. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






36. Type of control structure: CASE






37. Each element in an array is identified by a number called a ____________ which designates position in the array






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






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






40. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






41. Type of control structure: IF-THEN-ELSE






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






43. Type _____ Error: False Negative






44. The address of a memory location






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






46. A variable which will keep track of the number of occurrences of a certain transaction






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






48. The steps are performed in a strictly sequential manner - each step being executed exactly once.






49. A system in which negative numbers are represented by the two's complement of the absolute value.






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







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