Program Development and Compilation

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Agile

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Software development concept which uses multiple methods to facilitate interactive and collaborative projects

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Assembler

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Program that converts assembly code into object code

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Assembly Language

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Low-level language in which each instruction represents a single machine code instruction

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Code Generation

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Stage of the compilation process where an abstract syntax tree is converted into object code

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Code Optimisation

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Stage of the compilation process where redundant code is removed and code is made more efficient if possible

Question 6

Compiler

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Program that converts an entire program from high-level code to machine code at once

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Dijkstra’s Shortest Path

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Algorithm that finds the most optimal route from one node of a weighted graph to another without using heuristics

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Direct

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Memory addressing method where the operand represents the memory location
of the data to be used

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High-Level

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Category of programming language in which human-readable instructions represent machine code instructions

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Immediate

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Memory addressing method where the data to be used is hard-coded in the operand itself

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Indexed

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Memory addressing method where the operand, added to the value of the index register, is the memory location to be usedI

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Indirect

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Memory addressing method where the operand is the memory location of the memory location to be used

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Interpreter

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Program that converts a program from high-level code to machine code, one line at a time

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Lexical Analysis

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Stage of the compilation process where each line of source code is converted Linto a series of individual tokens

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Library

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Collection of pre-written and tested programming code which can be imported and used to write new programs

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Linker

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Adds any library code needed by a program to its compiled code so that it is included in the executable file

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Loader

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Part of the operating system that loads programs and libraries

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Low-Level

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Category of programming language in which each instruction represents a single machine code instruction

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Machine Code

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Binary instructions that can be processed by a computer

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Object Code

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Compiled code that can be run as an executable file

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Rapid Application Development

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Agile development methodology that creates prototype versions of a system until a final product that meets all requirements is approved

Question 22

Source Code

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Uncompiled high-level code

Question 23

Spiral Model

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Development model where a series of prototypes are designed, created and tested, and a new prototype is planned at the end of each cycle

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Syntax Analysis

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Stage of the compilation process where tokens are checked to make sure that the code is valid syntax

Question 25

Waterfall Model

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Development model where each development stage must be completed before the next stage can begin