Chapter 6 Quiz – Part One

_____ _______: breaking a program up into smaller, manageable functions or modules. It supports the divide-and-conquer approach to solving a problem.

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(a)   : a collection of statements to perform a specific task

Reason for modular programming are..

1) Simplifies the process of writing programs

2) Improves the maintainability of programs

(a)  

____ ____: a statement that causes a function to execute

(a)  

___ _____: the statements that make up a function

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A function definition includes how many items? (a number)

(a)  

_____ ____: the variables that hold the values that are passed to the function when it is called

(a)  

(a)   : the statements that perform the function’s task

___ ____: data type of the value the function returns to the part of the program that called it

(a)  

The function header consists of:

• the function return type

• the function name

• the function parameter list