Exam 1: An Overview of Computer Programming

____________________ is the act of making required changes to programs after they are put into production.

____________________ involves walking through a program's logic on paper.

Writing a program includes planning the logic, coding the program, translating the program into machine language, and testing the program.

What is a valid reason for program maintenance?

The two major techniques for developing programs are procedural programming and object-oriented programming (OOP).

Program ____________________ are nonexecuting statements you add for the purposes of documentation.

____________________ is the name for translated machine language statements.

A graphical ____ is one example of a user environment.

Logical errors are sometimes referred to as structural errors.

____________________ software comprises all of the programs you apply to a task.

One type of tool to aid the programmer during the planning stage is called a ____.

The type of software testing in which the tester does not look at the contents of the program is called ____ testing.

The rules that govern a programming language are called ____.

Careful selection of ____ is an essential part of good programming.

People have been writing modern computer programs since the ____.

In a flowchart, processing symbols are represented by ____________________.

One of the components of object-oriented design is identifying ____.

When you decide on the correct instructions for a program, you are developing the program's ____.

Syntax is important when using a programming language, but not when using ____.

____ is the set of physical devices associated with a computer.