Programming Basics

What was developed to abstract away many of the low-level details of machine code?

• better RAM

• hard drives

• programming languages

• the ALU

Just like spoken languages, programming languages have individual complete thoughts called ___

• statements

• syntax

• assignments

• conditionals

The set of rules that govern the structure and composition of statements in a language is called ___

• statement writing

• syntax

• initialization

• assembly code

The statement “a = 5” is what kind of programming language statement?

• syntax error

• assignment statement

• control flow statement

• conditional statement

What is the best practice for naming variables?

• all lower case single letters

• element symbols

• whatever we want

• as things that make sense

In the computer game, who swatted the bugs trying to get into the Harvard Mark 1?

• Grace Hopper

• Alan Turing

• Ada Lovelace

• John von Neuman

Setting the beginning value of a certain variable is known as ___

• "initializing" the variable

• "setting and forgetting"

• "setting" the floor

• "anchoring" the variable

What is the most common kind of Control Flow Statement?

• IF statements

• WHILE loops

• ELSE statements

• FOR loops

Which type of statement is like a fork in the road?

• IF statement

• WHILE loop

• ELSE statement

• function

An IF statement depends on whether an expression is true or false, so it is deemed a ___

• Conditional Statement

• Declarative Statement

• Initialized Value

• RETURN statement