MICS Unit 3 and 4 Test - Re-take

Programmers create ______ to hold the value of the information that may change.

• Boxes

• Code Boxes

• Variables

• Constants

Constants and variables can be:

• Numbers only

• Text only

• Neither numbers nor text

• Can be numbers and/or text

Information that is input, stored, and used in a compute program that does NOT change is called:

• Constant

• Variable

• Chageable

• Remaining

Pieces of information that change as the program runs are called:

• Constant

• Variable

• Changeable

• Remaining

A boolean variable has only 2 values:

• true/false

• happy/sad

• day/week

• month/year

The first time you use a variable, its type is assigned to whatever it is holding. From that point forward, you can only change the value of that variable to another value of the ______.

• Same number

• Different type

• Same text

• Same type

A sprite is a special variable that represents a single dot on the screen and holds 2 values for the ______.

• Row and colmn

• Size and color

• Height and width

• None of these

In a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors the names of the players are:

• Constants

• Variables

• Either constants or variables depending on who is winning

• Neither of these

In a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors he number of wins would be a:

• Constant

• Variable

• Either constant or variable depending on who is winning

• Neither of these

In most examples, a counting variable like score-keeping will start with ______ for all players.

• 0

• 1

• 10

• Any number over 20