Data Type
a data type in many programming languages that can hold either a True or a False.
What is Boolean?
is a language construct that can be used to produce a value.
What is an Expression?
is the process of detecting and removing existing and/or potential errors (also called 'bugs') in a program.
What is Debugging?
It is a 7-bit code for characters. For example: the letter ‘x’ is represented as 1111000.
What is ASCII?
It is a runnable program that provides some service.
What is an Application program?
a single letter or symbol that is represented by a small set of bytes in the computer.
What is a Character?
One of the pieces of data provided as input to a procedure or function.
What is an argument?
A good programming practice that provides structure to a source code.
What is the benefit of indenting?
It identifies a particular location or a piece of memory.
What is memory address?
a collection of statements (that are grouped together) that do a specific task.
What is a block?
an ordered sequence such as a string of bits or characters.
the process of storing a value in a variable.
What is an assignment statement?
the amount of time for the program to be compiled.
What is Compile time?
8 bits. It is often denoted by a capital B as in MB.
What is a byte?
a statement in a language that starts or invokes a procedure or a function.
What is a Call?
a whole number, that is with no fractional part. Maybe positive, negative or zero.
What is an integer?
the amount of time for the program to be compiled.
What is Compile Time?
creating an illegal statement in the program that occurs when you make an error such as a typo, insertion, deletion, or misuse of an element of the language.
What is a syntax error?
an area in the computer for storing and retrieving bytes of data.
What is Memory?
comments are important in programs as they are non-executing codes that explain to a reader what the codes are doing.
What is a comment?
Another name for a double type
What is a float?
code or statement that changes the order of execution for instance an if-statement conditionally executes code while a loop may perform a section of code repeatedly.
What is Control Structure?
It occurs when a correct program creates incorrect results for some input.
What is semantic error?
an element in a running program where the data is stored.
What is a variable?
A term used for variables and constants.
What is an identifier?