Exam 2: Algorithm Discovery and Design

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

Having an infinite loop in an algorithm is an error.

What is the problem with using high-level programming languages to represent algorithms?

____ operations provide the computing agent with data values from the outside world that it may then use in later instructions.

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

____ statements are the "question-asking" operations of an algorithm.

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

____________________ operations allow us to alter the normal sequential flow of control in an algorithm.

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

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