1.2.4 Types Of Programming Language

Question 1

Programming paradigm

Answer 1

A style or way of programming

Question 2

Procedural language

Answer 2

Any high level language that groups sets of instructions into subroutines or functions

Question 3

Assembly language

Answer 3

A language which is related to the computers own machine code

Question 4

Machine code

Answer 4

Set of all possible instructions made available by the hardware design of a particular processor

Question 5

Low level language

Answer 5

A language which is close to machine code

Question 6

High level language

Answer 6

A language designed to help a programmer express a computer in a way that reflects the problem being solved

Question 7

Little man computer

Answer 7

Was designed to model a very basic Von Neumann computer

Question 8

Immediate addressing

Answer 8

Uses data in the address field as a constant that is needed by the program

Question 9

Direct addressing

Answer 9

Uses data in the address field without alteration

Question 10

Indirect addressing

Answer 10

Uses the address field to hold the address of a location that contains the required address

Question 11

Indexed addressing

Answer 11

Modifies the address in the address field by the addition of a number held in the index register before the address is used

Question 12

Object oriented

Answer 12

Looking at systems by classifying them into real world objects

Question 13

Object oriented programming

Answer 13

Gathers together data (attributes) about an entity along with procedures and functions that act upon these data into one package called a class

Question 14

Class

Answer 14

A definition of an object

Question 15

Object

Answer 15

An instance of a class

Question 16

Method

Answer 16

A procedure or function residing in a class

Question 17

Encapsulation

Answer 17

When classes bundle together their attributes and methods

Question 18

Inheritance

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Where a new class inherits the methods and attributes of another

Question 19

Superclass

Answer 19

The class being inherited

Question 20

Derived class

Answer 20

The class that inherits another

Question 21

Polymorphism

Answer 21

Where a single method takes different forms depending on the class its using