EE 312 Exam 1 Terms - EE 312 Exam 1 Terminology a Arguments...

EE 312 Exam 1
Terminology:
a) Arguments
b) Array=group or collection of multiple variables of the
same data type
c) Assignment (statement)=variables are given new values
during execution
d) ASCII
e) Bell Labs=where C was designed/implemented by Dennis
Ritchie
f) Casting
g) Compiler=a translator
h) Constant
i) Continue=uses a shortcut to the bottom of a loop or
another block, skips the rest of the body for that iteration
j) Count controlled=number of iterations determined before
the loop starts counts each iteration using a counter
variable stops when the desired number of iterations has
been performed
k) Declaration (statement)=variables must be described or
typed before used
l) Event controlled=before each iteration, checks to see
whether some event has occurred, continues until that event
occurs, number of iterations not known beforehand
m) Exit
n) Functional Decomposition
o) Gigabytes
p) Global=(external) variables declared outside of functions
q) GNU=now called GCC=GNU Compiler Collection
r) Hardware
s) IBM