WGU - Scripting and Programming Foundations ||Questions and Correct Answers||Graded A+||

WGU - Scripting and Programming
Foundations ||Questions and Correct
Answers||Graded A+||
Program -CORRECT ANSWER Consists of instructions executing one at a time.

Input -CORRECT ANSWER A program gets data, perhaps from a file, keyboard,
touchscreen, network, etc.

Process -CORRECT ANSWER A programs performs computations on that data, such
as adding two values like x + y.

Output -CORRECT ANSWER A programs puts that data somewhere, such as to a file,
screen, network, etc.

Computational thinking -CORRECT ANSWER Creating a sequence of instructions to
solve a problem.

Algorithm -CORRECT ANSWER A sequence of instructions that solves a problem.

Statement -CORRECT ANSWER Carries out some action and executing one at a time.

String literal -CORRECT ANSWER Consists of text (characters) within double quotes,
as in "Go #57!".

Cursor -CORRECT ANSWER Indicates where the next output item will be placed in the
output.

Newline -CORRECT ANSWER A special two-character sequence \n whose appearance
in an output string literal causes the cursor to move to the next output line. The newline
exists invisibly in the output.

Comment -CORRECT ANSWER Text added to a program, read by humans to
understand the code, but ignored by the program when executed.

Whitespace -CORRECT ANSWER Refers to blank spaces (space and tab characters)
between items within a statement, and to newlines. Whitespace helps improve
readability for humans, but for execution purposes is mostly ignored.

Pseudocode -CORRECT ANSWER Text that resembles a program in a real
programming language but is simplified to aid human understanding.

, Assignment statement -CORRECT ANSWER Assigns a variable with a value, such as x
= 5. An assignment statement's left side must be a variable. The right side is an
expression.Examples: x = 5, y = a, or z = w + 2.

= -CORRECT ANSWER In programming, = is an assignment of a left-side variable with
a right-side value. It does not represent equality like in mathematics.

Variable declaration -CORRECT ANSWER Declares a new variable, specifying the
variable's name and type.

Identifier -CORRECT ANSWER A name created by a programmer for an item like a
variable or function. An identifier must: be a sequence of letters (a-z, A-Z), underscores
(_), and digits (0-9), AND start with a letter or underscore.

Reserved word or keyword -CORRECT ANSWER A word that is part of the language,
like integer, Get, or Put. A programmer cannot use a reserved word as an identifier.

Lower camel case -CORRECT ANSWER Abuts multiple words, capitalizing each word
except the first, such as numApples.

Underscore separated -CORRECT ANSWER Words are lowercase and separated by
an underscore, such as num_apples.

Expression -CORRECT ANSWER A combination of items, like variables, literals,
operators, and parentheses, that evaluates to a value. Example: 2 * (x+1)

Literal -CORRECT ANSWER A specific value in code, like 2.

Operator -CORRECT ANSWER A symbol that performs a built-in calculation, like the
operator + which performs addition.

Unary minus -CORRECT ANSWER The subtraction sign (-) used as a negative.

Note about integer literal -CORRECT ANSWER Commas are not allowed, so 1,333,555
must be written as 1333555.

Incremental development -CORRECT ANSWER The process of writing, compiling, and
testing a small amount of code, then writing, compiling, and testing a small amount
more (an incremental amount), and so on.

Floating-point number -CORRECT ANSWER A real number, like 98.6, 0.0001, or -
666.667.

Floating-point literal -CORRECT ANSWER A number with a fractional part, even if that
fraction is 0, such as 1.0, 0.0, or 99.573.