Names and Variables

Question 1

which are either reserved words or keywords, are the design issues for names

Answer 1

Case sensitivity and relationship of names to special words

Question 2

is a string of characters used to identify some entity in a program

Answer 2

name

Question 3

Case sensitivity is considered a problem of … and …

Answer 3

readability and writability

Question 4

in programming languages are used to make programs more readable by naming actions to be performed

Answer 4

Special words

Question 5

is a word of a programming language that is special only in certain contexts

Answer 5

keyword

Question 6

is a special word of a programming language that cannot be used as a name

Answer 6

reserved word

Question 7

is an abstraction of a computer memory cell or collection of cells

Answer 7

program variable

Question 8

A variable has six (6) attributes

Answer 8

1. Name
2. Address
3. Value
4. Type
5. Lifetime
6. Scope

Question 9

of a variable is where the program looks at when it has to read the data stored in that variable.

Answer 9

address

Question 10

Address is also known as …

Answer 10

l-value

Question 11

When more than one (1) variable name can be used to access the same memory location, the variables are called …

Answer 11

aliases

Question 12

allows a variable to have its value change by an assignment to a different variable

Answer 12

aliasing

Question 13

of a variable determines the range of values the variable can store and the set of operations that are defined for values of the type

Answer 13

type

Question 14

of a variable is the contents of the memory cell or cells associated with the variable

Answer 14

value

Question 15

Value is also known as

Answer 15

r-value