AP CSP Unit 1 Quiz 1 Practice

Match the following terms and definitions.

• Abstraction

• repeatedly applying a process with the goal of coming closer and closer to a solution

• Algorithm

• the process of identifying and fixing syntax and logic errors in a program

• Debugging

• the process or set of rules

  to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving

  operations, especially by a computer

• Iteration

• technique in computing that

  hides detail, makes more complicated ideas simpler, and

  collects a bunch of ideas into a single idea

• Compilation

• the process of source code being translated into machine

  code

Place the following steps in the correct order as they occur in the iterative development process.

• Document the code and process

• Design an algorithm

• Write the code

• Test and debug

• Investigate and plan

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Formal Language

,

(b) Natural Language

• Developed by small group

• Unambiguous

• Written and spoken forms

• Evolves over time

• Ambiguous

• Easy for machines to parse

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) High Level Programming Language

,

(b) Low Level Programming Language

,

(c) BOTH types of programming languages

• Easy for machines to parse

• Java

• Difficult for humans to parse

• Guaranteed unambiguous

• Machine language

• Python

• Easy for humans to parse

• Assembler

Suppose you have to swap the locations of two things in positions "A" and "B". Which algorithm successfully accomplishes the task?

• Move A to B

  Move B to A

• Move B to A

  Move A to B

• Move A to B

  Move B to C

  Move A to C

• Move B to C

  Move A to B

  Move C to A