Programming

Question 1

Integer?

Answer 1

A Whole number that can be positive or negative, including 0.

Question 2

Real/Float?

Answer 2

A positive or negative number which can be have a fractional part.

Question 3

Boolean?

Answer 3

A value which is either true or false.

Question 4

Character?

Answer 4

A single number, letter or symbol.

Question 5

String?

Answer 5

A collection of characters.

Question 6

Date / Time?

Answer 6

A way of storing a point in time, different methods are used.

Question 7

Records?

Answer 7

A collections of field.

Question 8

Pointer / Reference?

Answer 8

A way of storing memory addresses.

Question 9

Arrays?

Answer 9

An indexed set of elements, which each has the same data type.

Question 10

Variable Declaration?

Answer 10

Creating a variable for the first time, which will need a name and sometimes a data type.

Question 11

Constant Declaration

Answer 11

Creating a Variable but the value of a constant does not change while the program is running.

Question 12

Assignment?

Answer 12

Giving a constant or variable to a value

Question 13

Iteration?

Answer 13

Repeating a set of instruction, which can be definite or indefinite

Question 14

Selection?

Answer 14

Comparing values, then selecting an action based on those values

Question 15

Subroutine

Answer 15

A named block of code that contains a set of instructions that can be reused if the name given is called.

Question 16

What does the Length Function do?

Answer 16

Returns the number of characters in a specific string.

Question 17

What does the Position Function do?

Answer 17

Returns the position of a specified character within a string.

Question 18

Substring

Answer 18

Returns a portion of a String when given a starting position and a length.

Question 19

What does concatenation do?

Answer 19

Joins two or more strings together, to form a new string.

Question 20

What does “Character to Character” mean?

Answer 20

Returns the character code which is corresponding to a specified character.

Question 21

What does “String to Integer” do?

Answer 21

Converts a String into an Integer.

Question 22

What does “String to float” do?

Answer 22

Converts the String into a Float.

Question 23

What does “Integer to string” do?

Answer 23

Converts an Integer into a String.

Question 24

What does a “Float to String” do?

Answer 24

Converts a Float to a String.

Question 25

What does “Date/Time to string” do?

Answer 25

Converts Date/Time data type to a String

Question 26

What does “String to Date/Time” do?

Answer 26

Converts the String into a Date/Time data type.