1E Computer Programming & Methods

Question 1

What is Moore’s law?

Answer 1

The notion that the number of transistors in an IC doubles every two years.

Question 2

What is FLOP?

Answer 2

Floating-point Operations per Second, a measure of computational speed

Question 3

If dogs are a class in an object, then what’s a beagle?

Answer 3

An instance

Question 4

Objects have adjectives and verbs, AKA?

Answer 4

Attributes and methods

Question 5

In object-oriented programming, what is encapsulation?

Answer 5

Keeping attributes and methods private from other parts of the program

Question 6

What is nominal data? What is ordinal data?

Answer 6

Nominal - categorical, like smoking status or state

Ordinal - ordered data, like small, medium, and large (or a pain scale)

Question 7

What is the key difference between interval and ratio data?

Answer 7

Ration data has a true zero, meaning the absence of the variable, while with interval data zero is part of the scale (like temp)