Eduqas GCSE Computer Science programming overview quiz quiz

Editing a document

Memory management

Browsing the web

Designing a spreadsheet

A word processor for writing letters

A web browser for visiting websites

A disk defragmentation tool

A spreadsheet program for accounts

A compiler translates and runs the program one line at a time as it is needed

A compiler cannot report any errors to the programmer at all during translation

A compiler only works with low-level assembly language and never any high-level code

A compiler translates the whole program at once into an executable before it runs

The binary instructions a CPU executes directly

A high-level language written in words close to ordinary English

A list of short text mnemonics such as ADD and SUB used in assembly

A debugging feature built into an IDE

Integer (whole numbers)

Real (float)

Boolean

Character

3

12

2

85

A count-controlled (for) loop running a fixed number of times

A simple sequence of statements

A nested if statement

A condition-controlled (while) loop

The third element

The second element

The first element

The last element

It uses no memory at all to store the values

A loop can process every element by index

It sorts the data into order automatically

It encrypts the data so it is kept secure

A procedure returns a value; a function does not

Neither can take parameters

A function returns a value; a procedure does not

They are the same thing

The result a function returns to the code that called it

A type of loop that repeats a fixed number of times

A global variable that any part of the whole program can use

A value passed into a subprogram, named in its definition

A range check

A presence check

A length check

A format check

Indexing a character

Concatenation

Substring

Length

Small, medium and large sized values

Integer, real and string data types

Normal, boundary and erroneous

Local, global and constant variables