Exam 2: Algorithm Discovery and Design

Input and output allow the computing agent to communicate with the outside world.

A purely ____ algorithm is also called a straight-line algorithm.

A ____ is the repetition of a block of instructions.

"Print the value of product" is an example of a(n) ____ operation.

A(n) ____ is a collection of useful algorithms.

The two parts of a "while" statement are known as the loop head and the loop body.

A(n) ____ is a named storage location that can hold a data value.

In a pretest loop, the continuation condition is tested at the ____ through the loop.

How could an algorithm fall into an infinite loop?

If, then, and else are examples of ____ statements.