Year 5 week 09 homework

You are to bake a cake using a recipe given to you. Which of the following statements is an example of decomposition for this task?

• research into how to bake different sponges

• research into how to make different types of icing

• start breaking the problem down by first sorting out the ingredients then checking the equipment needed

• star t baking the cake straight away

State which type of conditional selection the following algorithm is an example of.

• condition that switches between actions

• Loop that is terminated by a condition

• Condition starts an action

what is decomposition?

• complicating things

• confusing things

• simplifying things

which block represents selection in a program

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What is a variable in programming

• repeating some thing

• order of instructions

• A bug

• something your program needs to remember that might change

which of the following is a variable in a program

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What is selection?

• Repeating a number of steps

• A decision point in a program

• The order in which instructions are carried out

In programming how is selection implemented?

• IF-OTHERWISE

• DO-ELSE

• IF-ELSE

What is the computing term given to the process of searching a program for errors and fixing them?

Which of the following describes ‘conditional selection’ in computing terms?

• conditional selection makes an algorithm more efficient

• conditional selection has no effect on the algorithm

• conditional selection allows a certain path to be taken through an algorithm all the time

• conditional selection allows a certain path to be taken through an algorithm if conditions are met