Exam 2: Algorithm Discovery and Design

A ____ is the repetition of a block of instructions.

With a natural language, different readers can interpret the same sentence in totally different ways.

Discuss in detail the application of pattern matching to the mapping of the human genome.

The three basic sequential operations are called addition, multiplication, and exponentiation.

What is the problem with using natural language to represent algorithms?

____ operations send results from the computing agent to the outside world.

In the line of code, "Set the value of Area to length*width", "Area" is a ____.

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

The ____ loop is an example of a posttest loop.

Together, conditional and iterative operations are called ____ operations.

A purely ____ algorithm is sometimes termed a straight-line algorithm.

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

The technique of looking at all the items in a list, starting at the beginning of the list, one at a time, until we either find what we are looking for or come to the end of the list is called ____ search.

In order to implement a "find" functionality in a word processor, one would have to design a ____ algorithm.

A(n) control algorithm executes its instructions in a straight line from top to bottom and then stops. _________________________

The process of searching for a special pattern of symbols within a larger collection of information is called object matching. _________________________

During the initial phases of design, we should be thinking and writing at a highly ____________________ level.

Briefly describe what pseudocode is and is not.

Having an infinite loop in an algorithm is an error.

Which statement exemplifies abstraction?