Algorithm design and problem solving

Question 1

What are the five stages of the program development life cycle?

Question 2

What is the analysis stage? What are abstraction and decompostion?

Question 3

What is the design stage?

Question 4

What is the coding stage? What is iterative testing?

Question 5

What is the testing stage?

Question 6

What is a computer system? Give examples.

Question 7

How is a computer divided into sub-systems and why?

Question 8

What is top-down design? Why is it effective?

Question 9

What type of computer systems does this structured approach work for and how?

Question 10

What are the component parts for any computer system and what do you need them for?

Question 11

What are structure diagrams?

Question 12

Why do you use structure diagrams, flowcharts and pseudocode?

Question 13

What are flow charts? Describe the symbols used for them.

Question 14

What is pseudocode?

Question 15

How is it written?

Question 16

How does the pseudocode for an assignment statement work? Give an example and list the operators.

Question 17

How do the pseudocode for conditional statements work?

Question 18

How does the if…then….else….endif condition work? What are the different ways an if condition can be set up? List the operators.

Question 19

What is a nested if?

Question 20

How does the case….otherwise….endcase statement work?

Question 21

What are the methods used to design and construct a solution? Why are these used?