COMP.1047 - Chapter 13: Programming

Another name for programming ?

Software development

An outline of the logic of the program to be written ?

Pseudocode

Logic structure, also known as IF-THEN-ELSE, that controls program flow based on a decision ?

Selection

Programming languages that are closer to the language of humans ?

Higher level

The process of testing and then eliminating program errors ?

Debugging

Program step that involves creating descriptions and procedures about a program and how to use it ?

Documentation

The first-generation language consisting of 1s and 0s ?

Machine

Converts a procedural language one statement at a time into machine code just before it is to be executed ?

Interpreter

Generation of computer languages that allows a person to provide a system with a problem and some constraints, and then request a solution ?

5GL

5GL that allows more direct human communication with a program ?

Natural language

The programming logic structure in which one program statement follows another ?

Sequential

A compiler converts the programmer's procedural language program, called the source code, into a machine language code, called the ?

Object code

These 4GL languages enable nonprogrammers to use certain easily understood commands to search and generate reports from a databse ?

Query

This step in the six-step programming procedure is the final step ?

Program maintenance

What a program processes ?

Data

The major processing steps identified in a top-down program design ?

Modules

Unlike traditional systems development, this software development approach focuses less on the procedures and more on defining the relationships between previously defined procedures ?

Object-oriented

Natural languages are considered to be a(n) ?

High-level language

One of the best ways to code effective programs is to use the three basic logic structures to create ?

Structured programs

This step in the six-step programming procedure involves desk checking and searching for syntax and logic errors ?

Program test