Coding Test

Question 1

Why design a programming language?

Answer 1

To give a machine instructions

Question 2

What is wrong with our language?

Answer 2

Implied

Contradictions

Words with multiple meanings

Question 3

How to remove ambiguities?

Answer 3

Specific and limited syntax

Not many words

Question 4

What happens when you reduce the number of commands?

Answer 4

Increase flexibility

Makes harder to use

Question 5

Functions and abstraction

Answer 5

Functions take a list of commands and call it one thing

Question 6

Are functions reusable?

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

Functions and the user

Answer 7

Functions allow the user to clean up the code

visually more pleasing and helpful

Question 8

Function or loop? Repetition

Answer 8

Loop

Question 9

Function or loop? Parameters

Answer 9

Function

Question 10

Function or loop? Call

Answer 10

Function

Question 11

Abstraction and teams

Answer 11

I can use Ferris’s code without knowing how it works

Can get blocks of code online

Question 12

Algorithm

Answer 12

A precise sequence of instructions and processes that can be executed by the computer

Question 13

Sequencing

Answer 13

is the application of each step of an algorithm in the order in which the statements are given.

Question 14

Selection

Answer 14

uses a Boolean condition (a TRUE/FALSE condition) to determine which of two parts of an algorithm is used.

Question 15

Iteration

Answer 15

the repetition of part of an algorithm until a condition is met for a specified number of times

Question 16

Function def.

Answer 16

A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again

Question 17

Abstraction

Answer 17

Giving functionality to higher level protocols without needing to know how the lower level protocols work

Question 18

API

Answer 18

A collection of commands that are available to the coder

Question 19

Documentation

Answer 19

A description of the behavior of the functions

Question 20

Parameter

Answer 20

An extra piece of information that you pass to the function to customize it for a specific need.

Question 21

Loop def.

Answer 21

A programming construct that repeats a group of commands

Question 22

Iteration (other def)

Answer 22

“loop” by another name - the repetition of a statement, process, or procedure.

Question 23

For loop

Answer 23

For Loop - A particular kind of looping construct provided in many languages. Typically, a for loop defines a counting variable that is checked and incremented on each iteration in order to loop a specific number of times.