Programming

Question 1

What is the most common reason for converting source code?

Answer 1

To create an executable program

Question 2

What is a Compiler?

Answer 2

A program for converting source code from one language into another language.

Question 3

What is the software component responsible for “Syntactic Analysis”, and what does it do?

Answer 3

Parser to build a data structure

Question 4

What are 3 types of data structures built by a parser?

Answer 4

parse tree, abstract syntax tree, hierarchical structure

Question 5

What are 2 of the most common functions related to Parsers?

Answer 5

C++ Compiler and HTML Parser

Question 6

What field of academic study originated with efforts in the 1950s to use computers to automatically translate texts from Russian Scientific Journals into English?

Answer 6

Computational Linguistics

Question 7

What are the relevant areas of interchange that formed the cognitive revolution?

Answer 7

Psychology, Linguistics, Anthropology; further developed in: Computer Science, AI, and Neuroscience

Question 8

In the Google Charts API Query Language, what is the Identifier in the result set of a query?

Answer 8

The Column ID

Question 9

What are the supported Data Types in Google Data Table?

Answer 9

string, number, boolean, date, datetime, timeofday