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___________________ tasks include any steps you must perform at the beginning of a program to get ready for the rest of the program.

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In a flowchart, an ____ is most often represented by a three-sided box that is connected to the step it references by a dashed line.


A) abstraction symbol
B) annotation symbol
C) abbreviation symbol
D) enumeration symbol

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Fractional numeric variables that contain a decimal point are known as ____ variables.


A) partial
B) string
C) integer
D) floating-point

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What are end-of-job tasks?

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End-of-job tasks are the steps you take at the end of the program to finish the application. You can call these finish-up or clean-up tasks. They might include displaying totals or other final messages and closing any open files.

Most modern programming languages require that program statements be placed in specific columns.

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____ variables and constants are known to the entire program.


A) Local
B) Transient
C) Heap
D) Global

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Programmers generally write programs as one long series of steps.

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Match each term with a statement below.

Premises
A statement that provides a data type and an identifier for a variable
Responses
Echoing input
Variables
Identifier
Type-safety
Declaration
Prompt
Data dictionary
Numeric variable
String variable
Reliability

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Echoing input
Variables
Identifier
Type-safety
Declaration
Prompt
Data dictionary
Numeric variable
String variable
Reliability

Variable names can be more than one word with blanks between the words.

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Match each term with a statement below.

Premises
Can hold digits and have mathematical operations performed on it
Responses
Data dictionary
Identifier
Echoing input
Variables
Declaration
Prompt
String variable
Numeric variable
Reliability
Type-safety

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Data dictionary
Identifier
Echoing input
Variables
Declaration
Prompt
String variable
Numeric variable
Reliability
Type-safety

____ is where a variable's data type or other information is stored as part of the name.


A) Hungarian notation
B) Pascal case
C) Turing notation
D) Camel case

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The process of naming program variables and assigning a type to them is called ____ variables.


A) initializing
B) declaring
C) identifying
D) proclaiming

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Modularization makes it harder for multiple programmers to work on a problem.

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Programmers say that variables and constants declared within a module are ____ only within that module.


A) abstracted
B) out of scope
C) in scope
D) in reference

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What does a data item's data type describe?

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A data item's data type is a classificat...

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Declaring a starting value is known as ____________________ the variable.

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initializing

Program comments are a type of internal documentation.

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List three design features that you can use while creating programs to make them easier to write and maintain.

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Students should list three of the follow...

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Each programming language has a few reserved ____________________ that are not allowed as variable names because they are part of the language's syntax.

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Because one memory location can be used repeatedly with different values, you can write program instructions once and then use them for thousands of separate calculations

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