Data Structures

Question 1

What is branching and why it it used in coding?

Answer 1

It is used to tell a computer to begin executing a different instruction sequence. E.g. to deviate from its default behaviour of executing instructions in order.
It is used to make a decision.

Question 2

What is the flow of control?

Answer 2

It is the order in which the computer executes statements in a script.

Question 3

What is floating point/float?

Answer 3

It is a variable that contains non whole numbers e.g. the numbers have decimals like 3.1415.

Question 4

What is a string?

Answer 4

It means text/words/characters e.g. 321, hello

Question 5

What is an integer?

Answer 5

It is a whole number.

Question 6

What is a Boolean?

Answer 6

It is a true or false expression.

Question 7

What is an array?

Answer 7

It is a list of values/information.

Question 8

What does object oriented mean?

Answer 8

It means you can assign objects to be data functions. This is mostly used for gaming and in languages like Java, C++, C#