Programming Basics

Question 1

A sequence of statements

Answer 1

Program

Question 2

A tool that runs a program’s statements

Answer 2

Interpreter

Question 3

The act of carrying out each statements action

Answer 3

Run

Question 4

A name that can hold a value

Answer 4

Variable

Question 5

A specific action in a program

Answer 5

Statement

Question 6

Shape used for an input statement

Answer 6

Parallelogram

Question 7

Consists of text (characters) within double quotes, as in “Go #57!”

Answer 7

String Literal

Question 8

Includes any letter (a-z, A-Z), digit (0-9), or symbol (~, !, @, etc.)

Answer 8

Character

Question 9

Indicates where the next output item will be placed in the output

Answer 9

Cursor

Question 10

A special two-character sequence \n whose appearance in an output string literal causes the cursor to move to the next output line

Answer 10

Newline

Question 11

Outputting a variable’s value

Answer 11

Put x to output. No quotes surround variable x’s name

Question 12

Text a programmer adds to a program, to be read by humans to better understand the code, but ignored by the program when executing. Starts with //

Answer 12

Comment

Question 13

Blank spaces (space and tab characters) between items within a statement, and to newlines

Answer 13

Whitespace

Question 14

Developed in 1963 and uses 7 bits per code, and has codes for 128 characters

Answer 14

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

Question 15

Text that resembles a program in a real programming language but is simplified to aid human understanding.

Answer 15

Pseudocode

Question 16

Depicts a program graphically, with a node for each statement.

Answer 16

Flowchart

Question 17

An integer variable’s initial value

Answer 17

0

Question 18

Type of language that the variable is known at compile-time instead of at run-time.

Answer 18

Statically Typed

Question 19

Examples of statically typed languages

Answer 19

Java, C, C++, FORTRAN, Pascal and Scala

Question 20

A class ofhigh-level programming languages, which atruntimeexecute many common programming behaviours that static programming languages perform duringcompilation.

Answer 20

Dynamically Typed Languages

Question 21

Examples of Dynamically Typed Languages

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JavaScript,Python,Ruby,PHP,LuaandPerl

Question 22

A computer language that uses tags to define elements within a document.

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Markup Languages (BBC, HTML, SGML, and XML)

Question 23

Language that is coded by a human, then that source code translates into assembly language so that the target program runs and returns a desired result

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Compiled Language

Question 24

Language that is compiled in real time when it’s run, and it often uses simpler and more human-friendly syntax for coding

Answer 24

Interpreted Language

Question 25

Conditional statement that continually runs if the statement returns true; if false will end or jump to the next statement

Answer 25

While Loop

Question 26

Enables a particular set of conditions to be executed repeatedly until a condition is satisfied

Answer 26

For Loop

Question 27

Statement that executes a block of code at least once, and then either repeatedly executes the block, or stops executing it, depending on a given boolean condition at the end of the block

Answer 27

Do-While Loop