PLD Flashcards on 2 - Program Development Life Cycle, created by Geraldine Ruiz on 02/09/2018.
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Program Development Cycle
Professional computer programmers write programs to satisfy the needs of others, called ____ or ___ _____.
Consists of all the supporting paperwork for a program.
Two most common planning tools
The sequence of steps or rules you follow to solve a problem
Process of walking through a program’s logic on paper before you actually write the program.
The process of finding and correcting program errors.
The entire set of actions an organization must take to switch over to using a new program or set of programs
After programs are put into production, making necessary changes is called _______.
English-like representation of the logical steps it takes to solve a problem.
Prefix that means false.
Simply means false code, or sentences that appear to have been written in a computer programming language but do not necessarily follow all the syntax rules of any specific language.
Pictorial representation of the same thing (pseudocode).
To represent an input or output symbol, which indicates an input or output operation.
In a flowchart, you use a _________ as the processing symbol that contains a processing statement
The parallelogram is used for both input and output, it is often called the _____.
To show the correct sequence of these statements, you use arrows, or ________, to connect the steps.
a flowchart should include two more elements: _______ _______, or start/stop symbols, at each end.
The repetition of a series of steps.
The sequence of instructions never ends.
A preselected value that stops the execution of a program.
Such a value is called a ______ _____ because it represents an entry or exit point, like a sentinel who guards a fortress.
Many programming languages use the term ___
