Data Structures Midterm

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Algorithms are defined using three basic control structures:

Sequence, Selection, Repetition

Different types of tests to use for a program:

unit tests, integration tests, system tests

Types of errors in coding:

syntax errors, runtime errors, logical errors

What is debugging?

The process of finding errors in a program to fix them

what is mantissa? 

the fractional part of the normalized number, representing the precision. The more bits in the mantissa, the more accurate the representation

abstraction

separate purpose of a module from it’s implementation

unsigned integers

unsigned short, unsigned, unsigned long

signed integers

short, int, long
represented in two’s complement

dangling pointer

a pointer that points to invalid data or to data which is not valid anymore