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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A system in which negative numbers are represented by the two's complement of the absolute value.






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






3. base value of a binary number system?






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






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






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






7. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






8. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






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






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






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






14. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






17. Statistics: square root of variance






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






19. A ____________ procedure is one in which a statement or set of statements are embedded within other statements






20. A reserved word for variable.






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






22. It fetches the instructions from the memory and decodes them and and directs the system to execute the operations indicated by the instructions.






23. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






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






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






27. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






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






29. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






31. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






33. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






34. An effective method for solving a problem using a finite sequence of instructions.






35. dividend / divisor = _______________






36. Type ____ Error: False Positive






37. Examples of _____ are: integer and real and true and false and read and readln and write and writeln.






38. A _________ is a new way to use breakpoints. It is a breakpoint with a custom action associated with it. When hit it causes the debugger to perform the specified action instead of (or in addition to) breaking program execution.






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






40. A string _________ is the operation of joining two character strings end to end.






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






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






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






44. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






45. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






46. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






47. Quantities whose values do not change during program execution.






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






49. 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






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