COSC Chapter 2 Test Questions and Answers All Correct
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COSC Chapter 2 Test Questions and Answers All Correct
A sequential search is the technique of looking at all the items in a list one at a time, starting at _______ of the list, until we either find what we are looking for or come to the end of the list. - Answer-The beginning
The selection of ...
COSC Chapter 2 Test Questions and
Answers All Correct
A sequential search is the technique of looking at all the items in a list one at a time,
starting at _______ of the list, until we either find what we are looking for or come to the
end of the list. - Answer-The beginning
The selection of an algorithm to solve a problem is greatly influenced by the way the
input ____ for that problem are organized. - Answer-Solutions
A ____ is a collection of useful, prewritten algorithms. - Answer-Library
A pattern-matching algorithm may be used to implement a _______ function in a word
processor. - Answer-Find
Which statement exemplifies abstraction? - Answer-The president of General Motors
views the company in terms of its corporate divisions and high-level policy issues.
Viewing an operation at a high level of abstraction and fleshing out the details of its
implementation at a later time is known as ____ design. - Answer-Increasing-size
____ is an example of a natural language. - Answer-English
In the line of pseudocode, "Set the value of Area to length × width", "Area" is a ____. -
Answer-Value
A(n) ____ is an algorithmic operation that carries out a single numeric computation and
stores the result. - Answer-Computation
____ operations provide the computing agent with data values from the outside world
that it may use in later instructions. - Answer-Input
____ operations send results from the computing agent to the outside world. - Answer-
Output
A purely ____ algorithm is sometimes termed a straight-line algorithm. - Answer-
Sequential
Examples of control operations would be _______ and _______. - Answer-Conditional
and iterative
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