Exam 2: Applications and Data

Most modern programming languages are ____, meaning that you can arrange your lines of code as you see fit.

A literal numeric constant does not change.

Which of the following is correct if the data type for weight is num?

A ____ dictionary is a list of every variable name used in a program.

The assignment operator is said to have right-to-left associativity.

A named constant can be assigned a value multiple times.

The convention used in this book for named constants is ____ characters ____ underscores to separate words.

If an application contains only one method that executes, that method is called the ____________________ method.

Arithmetic operators have ____________________ associativity.

Program comments are a type of ____________________ documentation.

Three types of program structures are sequence, selection, and loop.

A ____________________ constant is enclosed within quotation marks.

With a ____ structure, you perform an action or event, and then you perform the next action in order.

What is an equivalent way to write the following statement? answer = a + b + c * d / e - f

What is one drawback to including program comments?

There will always be only one class ____ for each class.

What is an advantage of using the practice of echoing input?

A loop structure does not contain a decision point.

The ____________________ operator has the lowest precedence.

The ___ dictate the order in which operations in the same statement are carried out.