Week 3 Intro to Programming

Question 1

Modularization

Answer 1

the process of dividing a whole into well-defined parts which can be built and examined separately and which interact in well-defined ways.

Question 2

Abstraction

Answer 2

the ability to ignore details of parts to focus attention on a higher level of a problem.

Question 3

What is a dynamic view in programming?

Answer 3

a data asset that’s created based on an SQL query and can contain data from one or more tables

Question 4

What is SQL (Structured Query Language) in programming?

Answer 4

a command used to communicate with a database to perform operations like retrieving, updating, inserting, or deleting data

Question 5

Problems can be usefully divided into sub-problems, but how?

Answer 5

• Identify sub-components of objects
• Implement as independent classes

Question 6

What is a Primitive Type?

Answer 6

They represent simple values that are not objects and typically have a fixed size and limited set of operations. They are also usually immutable

Question 7

What is an Object Type?

Answer 7

Complex data types that represent instances of classes, encapsulating both data (attributes) and behaviour (methods)

Question 8

Define immutable

Answer 8

an object or data structure whose state cannot be modified after it has been created.

Question 9

What is the modulo operator % (in Java)

Answer 9

An operator represented by ‘’%’’ symbol. It is used to find the remainder of a division operation between two integers.