Exam 9: Introduction to High-Level Language Programming

In early programming languages, conserving machine resources was not an issue.

____ is the rules for exactly how statements must be written in a programming language.

A modern programming EXE provides a text editor, a file manager, a compiler, a linker and loader, and tools for debugging, all within this one piece of software._________________________

Assembly language programs are ____ specific.

Explain the following statement at length: Programs written in a high-level language will be portable rather than machine specific.

What is the purpose of the feasibility study?

A ____ involves developing a clear, concise, and unambiguous statement of the exact problem the software is to solve.

Program maintenance, the process of adapting an existing software product, may consume as much as 85% of the total software development life cycle budget.

____ a program means running it on many data sets to be sure its performance falls within required limits.

With regard to imperative languages, what is the programmer's task?

In a high-level language, the programmer's only responsibilities for managing data items are to declare (or in the case of Python, create) all constants and variables the program will use.

What is pair programming?

Individual assembly language statements, though easier to read, can be no more powerful than the underlying ____________________.

Maintenance should be viewed as a separate step in the software development life cycle._________________________

The availability of the appropriate compiler guarantees that a program developed on one type of machine can be compiled on a different type of machine.

Each assembly language statement corresponds to, at most, one ____________________ language statement.

What question should a feasibility study address, and what are some of the possible answers?

List four expectations of a program written in a high-level language.

The ____________________ computer architecture is characterized by sequential fetch-decode-execute cycles.

When we moved from machine language to assembly language, we needed a piece of system software-a(n) ____________________-to translate assembly language instructions into machine language.