ALGORITHMS

Question 1

What is the shape and purpose of a start/stop in a flowchart?

Answer 1

its pill shaped, this should be placed at the start and at the end of the flowchart . its purpose is to show where the program starts and stops

Question 2

What is the shape and purpose of input/output in a flowchart?

Answer 2

This is rhombus shaped, this shows were the user needs to have information inputted, or when information needs to be outputted

Question 3

What is the shape and purpose of a decision in a flow chart?

Answer 3

its purpose is to ask boolean question (true or false) and this is looped back to the previous sections. it is diamond shaped

Question 4

What are trace tables good for?

Answer 4

helping and understanding. the program flow

Question 5

How are trace tables structured?

Answer 5

the line number is first, then the first variable, the the second etc etc, then the output is shown