QUIZ on Chapter #4 in Programming Logic and Design

This is an open notes/open book quiz. It should be done individually without consultation with other students. The quiz should be emailed to me by the first class day after the week it was posted. There will be a penalty for late quizzes (a grade if it is late and a grade for each week until the grade reaches a D - a quiz grade will never drop below a D based on lateness - you can only fail a quiz based on your answers). If you feel a fill in the blank or true/false question needs to be explained, feel free to include an explanation! On True/False questions if I also ask for WHY you must explain why the statement is False if you pick False.

#	Question	Your Answer
1.	True or False and WHY: You should not use embedded spaces in a variable name.
2.	True or False and WHY: After reading an input record the programmer should always check and see if the read was successful or whether EOF was encountered.
3.	True or False and WHY: Source code is the compiled or machine-language version of a code.
4.	True or False and WHY: When writing a program that produces a report, your first task is to determine what the output should be and then determine whether you have the access to the data needed to produce the report.
5.	True or False and WHY: A good programming technique is to store modules in separate files and use code to include them in appropriate places in your program.
6.	True or False and WHY: The operating system stores numeric and character data in the same format.
7.	True or False and WHY: The standard input device is usually the A drive and the standard output device is usually the printer.
8.	True or False and WHY: When you read input data from a file/table you need to specify a memory position for just the data you plan to use.
9.	True or False and WHY: It is better to code a constant with a name and an assigned value then to use the value directly in the code.
10.	The three modules of the mainline logic of a typical procedural program are: ________, ________, and _________.
11.	Giving a starting value to a variable is known as ______________ or your book also says defining the variable.
12.	True or False and WHY: Declaring a variable involves selecting a name and a type and assigning the variable to a memory location that can be used to both store and retrieve data.
13.	True or False and WHY: Programmers frequently use temporary variables to hold step by step results in a complex calculation.
14.	A __________________ is used to show module relationships. It shows the modules that appear in the program and which module calls which but it does not detail the code in the module.
15.	True or False and WHY: Some language require you to specify the length of all variables, other languages assign a predetermined size depending on the type for some types of variables.
16.	In the literal "IDNO Name", what purpose do the blanks between IDNO and Name serve? What will actually appear if the literal is printed on a report?
17.	True or False and WHY: When you open a file you must provide information about the name of the file and where it is stored.
18.	A group of variables is frequently referred to as a data _____________.
19.	True or False and WHY: The first read in a program is called the ______________ or ___________ read and should be done in housekeeping or processing starts.
20	Name a language that provides an initial value of 0 to a numeric variable. ______________
21.	Name a language that does not provide an initial value of 0 to a numeric variable. ______________
22.	True or False and WHY: When you declare the areas to hold data from a file or table, you do not give them an initial value.
23.	True or False and WHY: All reads after the first read should be done at the beginning of the main processing loop.
24.	True or False and WHY: Programming languages have a way to advance to the top of a new page or to double or triple space a report.
25.	Name three things that can be done in the housekeeping section of a program: __________, ____________, ________________.