Chapter 5 Computer Science

A means of saving the result of a computation or a constant for future use

Assignment statement

Which of the following is not a means of repeating a block of instructions?

Assignment statement

A basic building block

Primitive

Which of the following is an activity in progress?

Process

Which of the following is a representation (not in progress)?

Program

An informal notation for representing algorithms

Pseudocode

Characterized by a function invoking itself

Recursion

A divide and conquer approach to problem solving

Stepwise refinement

Which of the following is not a way of representing algorithms?

Stepwise retirement

The fundamental concept in computer science

Algorithm

A means of producing different actions depending on a condition

If else statement

A program segment isolated as an invocable unit

Iteration

Looks before it leaps

Pretest loop