Deck 10: The Tower of Babel

Question 1

C++ is in fact a "subset" of C, meaning that all of the C++ language is part of C.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Lady Ada Lovelace is regarded as the world's first programmer on the basis of her correspondence with Charles Babbage and her published notes on his work with the Analytic Engine.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

C programs can make use of low-level information such as knowledge of where data are stored in memory. _________________________

Answer 3

True

Question 4

____________________ language code fragments can be embedded in Web pages to make those pages active rather than static.

Question 5

C# is the successor to C++ and is the same basic language.

Question 6

Java is the language used to frame database queries. _________________________

Question 7

Writing all computer programs in the same programming language would be more efficient because all languages meet essentially the same needs.

Question 8

FORTRAN and ____________________ were the dominant high-level languages of the 1960s and 1970s.

Question 9

The use of parallelism always reduces processing time because subtasks are being executed concurrently.

Question 10

Logic programming languages are sometimes called imperative languages. _________________________

Question 11

Early versions of FORTRAN included a while loop mechanism. _________________________

Question 12

The majority of business transactions, billions of them per day, are still done on ____________________ code that has now been updated and is likely to continue to run for the foreseeable future.

Question 13

C++ was designed with engineering applications in mind. _________________________

Question 14

FORTRAN does not allow the use of external libraries.

Question 15

There are multiple programming languages not so much because there are tasks that one programming language cannot do but because each programming language was designed to meet specific needs.

Question 16

Unlike FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++, and Ada, which were carefully developed as programming languages, ____________________, a modern, object-oriented language, was almost an accident.

Question 17

Early versions of FORTRAN allowed the use of mathematical symbols such as < to compare two quantities.

Question 18

Procedural languages differ in the details of assigning a new value to a variable, in the mechanisms the language provides for directing the flow of control through conditional and looping statements, and in the statement forms that control input and output.

Question 19

At some point, an increase in the number of ____________________ can become more of a hindrance than a help, due to the extra data communication required.

Question 20

Much of the processing in the business world concerns updating "transaction files" with changes from "master files."

Question 21

A ____ expresses a property about a single object or a relationship among several objects.

A) fact
B) fallacy
C) query
D) connection

Question 22

____ was the first high-level programming language actually implemented.

A) COBOL
B) BASIC
C) PL-1
D) FORTRAN

Question 23

Patterned after the human brain, ____ can involve massive interconnections of many extremely simple devices.

A) neural networks
B) kinetic networks
C) biometric networks
D) psychometric networks

Question 24

Today ____ is still strong in the transportation industry (aircraft, helicopters, subway systems, European high-speed train control systems) and in safety monitoring systems at nuclear reactors, as well as in financial and communication systems.

A) Ada
B) C
C) Java
D) C++

Question 25

____ source code is freely available and can be used, distributed, or modified by anyone.

A) C#
B) Python
C) Java
D) J#

Question 26

____ is a proprietary language-intellectual property belonging to Microsoft Corporation.

A) Ada
B) C++
C) F#
D) BASIC

Question 27

A(n) ____ is a model or mental framework for representing or thinking about something.

A) pyramid
B) paradigm
C) architecture
D) stack

Question 28

____ goes a step further toward not specifying exactly how a task is to be done.

A) Logic interfacing
B) Logic structuring
C) Logic outlining
D) Logic programming

Question 29

Using a single processor, finding the largest of N numbers takes ____ time.

A) (1)
B) (NlogN)
C) (N2)
D) (N)

Question 30

____ is the FORTRAN implementation of "input."

A) FETCH
B) GET
C) READ
D) INPUT

Question 31

____ is really a catchall term for a variety of approaches to computing architectures and algorithm design.

A) Distributed processing
B) Serial processing
C) Parallel processing
D) Scalable processing

Question 32

Directing the flow of control in a FORTRAN program by using ____ statements is similar to using the various JUMP statements in the assembly language.

A) BRANCH
B) RUN
C) GOSUB
D) GO TO

Question 33

Code filled with GO TO statements that send the flow of control all over the place is known as "____."

A) linguini code
B) spaghetti code
C) strangled code
D) messy code

Question 34

Java ____ are programs designed to run from Web pages.

A) applications
B) beans
C) grounds
D) applets

Question 35

____ was originally designed for systems programming, in particular for writing the operating system UNIX.

A) COBOL
B) C
C) Python
D) Java

Question 36

____ was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming.

A) F#
B) C#
C) Go
D) FORTRAN

Question 37

A program to interact with an I/O device is called a ____.

A) device-let
B) device interface
C) device driver
D) device hook

Question 38

The task of finding the largest number in a list can be solved in a MIMD parallel fashion using the ____ model.

A) distributed
B) divide-and-conquer
C) piecewise
D) stepwise

Question 39

____ is the most widely used language for writing system software because of the versatility its design philosophy bestowed on it.

A) C++
B) Pascal
C) Java
D) C

Question 40

A ____ occurs when a function, in the course of acting on its argument values to produce a result value, also changes other values that it has no business changing.

A) side effect
B) side line
C) secondary interface
D) secondary routine

Question 41

Describe the two models of parallel architectures.

Question 42

With what is SQL designed to be used?

Question 43

Provide an explanation of the word function in the context of functional languages.

Question 44

Is recursion the major argument for using a functional language? If not, what is?

Question 45

Describe in detail what a metalanguage like XML is and what it can do.

Question 46

What is HTML used for?

Question 47

Discuss dynamic Web pages and PHP.

Question 48

Briefly discuss the relationship between facts and queries in logic programming.

Question 49

Of what does programming in a procedural language consist?

Question 50

Explain what an expert system is.