Exam 3: Understanding Structure

Repetition and sequence are alternate names for a loop structure.

Pseudocode uses the end-structure statement ____ to clearly show where the structure ends.

In older languages, you could leave a selection or loop before it was complete by using a ____ statement.

The following pseudocode is an example of ____.

Structured programs use spaghetti code logic.

In a selection structure, you perform an action or task, and then you perform the next action in order.

The do loop is a variation of the ____ loop.

All logic problems can be solved using only these three structures: sequence, selection, and loop. The three structures, of course, can be combined in an infinite number of ways. What are two general ways structures can be combined?

Structured programming is sometimes called ____________________-less programming.

What are the characteristics of a structured program?

Structured programs can be easily broken down into routines or ____ that can be assigned to any number of programmers.

In a structured program, any structure can be nested within another structure.

Structures can be stacked or connected to one another at their ____.

The following pseudocode is an example of a ____ structure.

Describe how you can straighten out an unstructured flowchart segment.

A structured program must contain a sequence, selection, and loop structure.

No matter how complicated it is, any set of steps can always be reduced to combinations of the two basic structures of sequence and loop.