SLR2 Programming next steps

Question 1

Exception handling

Answer 1

“The process of responding to occurrences of anomalous or exceptional conditionals during the normal flow of program execution.”

Question 2

Parameter

Answer 2

“Data structures passed into a procedure or function when they are initially called.”

Question 3

Procedure

Answer 3

“A block of code given a unique, identifiable name within a program. A can take either zero or more parameters when it is called. Does not return a value”

Question 4

Function

Answer 4

“A block of code given a unique, identifiable name within a program. A can take either zero or more parameters when it is called and should return a value.”

Question 5

Local variable

Answer 5

“A variable which is defined and can only be used within one part of the program (normally a single function or procedure).”

Question 6

Global variable

Answer 6

“A variable which can be used anywhere in the program.”

Question 7

Stack frame

Answer 7

“A frame of data which gets pushed onto a stack. For the exam and programming, remember the call stack; this would represent a function call and its arguments. The return address is pushed onto the stack when a subroutine is called and popped off when we return.”

Question 8

Return address

Answer 8

“A memory address which represents the location of the instruction to return to when a subroutine exits.”

Question 9

Recursion

Answer 9

“An advanced programming construct in which a block of code (often a function) is able to call itself.”

Question 10

“The process of responding to occurrences of anomalous or exceptional conditionals during the normal flow of program execution.”

Answer 10

Exception handling

Question 11

“Data structures passed into a procedure or function when they are initially called.”

Answer 11

Parameter

Question 12

“A block of code given a unique, identifiable name within a program. A can take either zero or more parameters when it is called. Does not return a value”

Answer 12

Procedure

Question 13

“A block of code given a unique, identifiable name within a program. A can take either zero or more parameters when it is called and should return a value.”

Answer 13

Function

Question 14

“A variable which is defined and can only be used within one part of the program (normally a single function or procedure).”

Answer 14

Local variable

Question 15

“A variable which can be used anywhere in the program.”

Answer 15

Global variable

Question 16

“A frame of data which gets pushed onto a stack. For the exam and programming, remember the call stack; this would represent a function call and its arguments. The return address is pushed onto the stack when a subroutine is called and popped off when we return.”

Answer 16

Stack frame

Question 17

“A memory address which represents the location of the instruction to return to when a subroutine exits.”

Answer 17

Return address

Question 18

“An advanced programming construct in which a block of code (often a function) is able to call itself.”

Answer 18

Recursion