Midterms

Question 1

Easy to learn due to the similarity to the human language.

Answer 1

Human Friendly Programing Language

Question 2

Easy to understand

Answer 2

User Friendly

Question 3

1st Generation Programming Language

Answer 3

1950’s
Machine Language

Question 4

2nd Generation Programming Language

Answer 4

Mid 1950’s
Assembly Language

Question 5

3rd Generation Programming Language

Answer 5

1960’s to 1970’s
High Level

Question 6

3rd Generation Programming Language

Answer 6

FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL

Question 7

4th Generation Programming Language

Answer 7

Very High Level Programming Languages
ex: Python, Ruby

Question 8

5th Generation Programming Language

Answer 8

Very closely resemble human speech

Question 9

6th Generation Programming Language

Answer 9

Very high level programming programming language with extreme abstraction.

Question 10

6th Generation Programming Language

Answer 10

No code, more on visual development

Question 11

5th Generation Programming Language

Answer 11

Designed to make computer smarter

Question 12

5th Generation Programming Language

Answer 12

Mercury, PROLOG, LISP

Question 13

Paradigm of programming Language

Answer 13

the pattern of the PL in modeling and solving problems.

Question 14

Describes “how” the program solves the problem through step by step statements.

Answer 14

Imperative Programming

Question 15

Follows a sequence of statements or commands.
ex: FORTRAN, C, C++, PASCAL, BASIC

Answer 15

Procedural Programming

Question 16

Breaks the program into objects, a collection of data and code.
ex: Javq, Python, PHP, RUBY

Answer 16

Object Oriented Programming

Question 17

Describe “what” the program does, without explicitly specifying the steps.

Relies heavily on pure mathematics

Answer 17

Functional Programming

Question 18

Uses a system of formal logic .

Uses a series of rules to instruct the computer on what to do.

ex: PROLOG, DATALOG, ALICE

Answer 18

Logic Programming

Question 19

APPLICATIONS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Answer 19

• Develop systems and OS
• Used for general purposes
• Applied in many aspects in AI
• Applied in scientific computation
• Used in text or data programming

Question 20

The process of converting the source code to machine code for the computer to understand.

Answer 20

Compilation

Question 22

Converts code to be readable or understandable

Answer 22

Interpretation

Question 23

4 CRITERIA FOR A GOOD PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

Answer 23

• Readability
  -Writability
• Reliability
• Cost Effective

Question 24

IntelliSense

Answer 24

Completes the syntax and detect syntax errors.

Question 25

Rule of how a PL is constructed

Answer 25

Syntax

Question 26

Instructions or behavior of the statements or in short the “meaning”

Answer 26

Semantics

Question 27

implementation or the context

Answer 27

Pragmatics

Question 28

Set of special characters.
ex: A-Z, 0-9, ; , : and etc.

Answer 28

Character Set

Question 29

Keywords or variables.
ex: int, string, bolean

Answer 29

Identifiers

Question 30

• not readable by the code
• a guide or a note
• for documentation

Answer 30

Comments

Question 31

Optional, can be or not be in your codes.

Answer 31

Noise Words

Question 32

Sets the starting and end paths.
ex: (), {}, []

Answer 32

Delimiters

Question 33

Condition on or of an expression.
ex: Logical Expressions - &&

Answer 33

Expression

Question 34

• A command that performs a function.
• It is the instructions.
  ex: if, do-while, try

Answer 34

Statement