8th Grade Robotics Test #1 Review

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

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

What is the best practice for naming variables?

• all lower case single letters

• element symbols

• whatever we want

• as things that make sense

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

• syntax error

• assignment statement

• control flow statement

• conditional statement

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

• IF statement

• WHILE loop

• ELSE statement

• function

Which statement acts as a catch-all if the expression following an IF statement is false?

• an OVERFLOW statement

• a NOT statement

• an ELSE statement

• an OTHER statement

What kind of loop will repeat a piece of code as long as a certain expression is true?

• an IF loop

• a WHILE loop

• a NEXT loop

• a FOR loop

Modern programming languages come with huge bundles of pre-written functions, called ___

• Modularized Code

• Libraries

• Stacks

• Code Collections