Deck 10: The Tower of Babel

Question 1

Early versions of FORTRAN included a while loop mechanism._________________________

Answer 1

False
- did not include, didn't include

Question 2

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

Answer 2

False

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Java

Question 4

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 5

Logic programming languages are sometimes called imperative languages._________________________

Question 6

Although C++ supports the basic arithmeticoperations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division by providingsimple operators (+, −, *, /) to do these tasks, there is no operator forexponentiation-that is, raising a value to a power.

Question 7

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

Question 8

Java is the language used to frame database queries._________________________

Question 9

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

Question 10

FORTRAN does not allow the use of external libraries.

Question 11

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

Question 12

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 13

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

Question 14

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 15

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

Question 16

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.

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

____ is the FORTRAN implementation of "input."

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

Question 22

With a suitable parallel processor, a search for the largest of 1,000,000 numbers requires (2*lgN), or____ steps.

A) 1
B) 500
C) 40
D) 1,000,000

Question 23

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 24

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

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

Question 25

One of the newest languages, ____, was designed for building apps on the iOSand OS X operating systems.

A) Go
B) C++
C) Swift
D) F#

Question 26

Old computer code that is still in use is known as ____.

A) legacy code
B) spaghetti code
C) Y2K code
D) portable code

Question 27

Java ____ are programs designed to run from webpages.

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

Question 28

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 29

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 30

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

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

Question 31

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

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

Question 32

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

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

Question 33

____, which includes MIMD, 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 34

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 35

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 36

Compared to functional programming, ____ 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 37

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

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

Question 38

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

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

Question 39

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

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

Question 40

____is the most widely used language for writing system software becauseit combines the power of a high-level language with the ability to circumventthat level of abstraction and work at the assembly-language-like level.

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

Question 41

What is HTML used for?

Question 42

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

Question 43

Explain what an expert system is.

Question 44

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

Question 45

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

Question 46

Explain the MIMD model of parallel architecture.

Question 47

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

Question 48

With what is SQL designed to be used?

Question 49

What does programming in a procedural language consist of?

Question 50

Discuss dynamic webpages and PHP.