Exam 8: Introduction to High-Level Language Programming

____ involves developing a clear, concise, and unambiguous statement of the exact problem to be solved.

_____ creates what is called an "is a" relationship.

A semicolon should appear at the end of a method header.

A(n) ____ method is one that does not need to be invoked by an object of that class.

Which of the following identifies a function as void or nonvoid?

A(n) _____ statement writes a message or the value of a program variable to the user's screen or to a file on some permanent storage medium.

The Console class methods readInt, readDouble, and readChar are nonvoid methods that return the value entered at the keyboard.

Internal documentation is part of the program code itself.

In Java, an identifier can be any combination of letters and digits, in any order.

In a high-level programming language, the programmer must "manually" manage the movement of data items between and among memory locations.

A public method can be used anywhere, including any other Java program that wants to make use of the class containing the method.

An argument list for a function is a list of the identifiers for variables that concern that function.

The three key elements of object-oriented programming (OOP) are inheritance, polymorphism, and _____.

A(n) _____ list is a set of variables passed to a function when it is invoked.

What is the Java representation of the multiplication operation?

In C++, modules of code are called _____.

If the value passed to the function is one that the function should change, and the main function should know the new value, then the argument is passed by value.

Debugging a program consists solely of running it on many data sets to be sure its performance falls within required limits.

____ testing involves designing a special set of test cases and running the program using the test data.

Conditional flow of control begins with the evaluation of a boolean expression.