FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS

WHAT IS PROGRAMMING

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

What do you call an ordered sequence of unambiguous and well-defined instructions that performs some task and stops in finite time?

A	An event.
B	A process.
C	A procedure.
D	An algorithm.

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -An algorithm is a set of commands that must be followed for a computer to perform calculations or other problem-solving operations. According to its formal definition, an algorithm is a finite set of instructions carried out in a specific order to perform a particular task.

Detailed explanation-2: -An algorithm is a sequence of unambiguous instructions for solving a problem, i.e., for obtaining a required output for any legitimate input in a finite amount of time [Levitin, p. 3].

Detailed explanation-3: -Unambiguous Instructions. ❖ An algorithm is a systematic method for deterministically. producing a specified result. In other words, step-by-step instructions that, if followed, get you the same result every time.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wikipedia says that “in mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a finite sequence of well-defined, computer-implementable instructions, typically to solve a class of problems or to perform a computation”.

Detailed explanation-5: -ALGORITHM-PSEUDOCODE This is a finite set of steps that are followed in order to solve a problem. Algorithm are not unique to computing.

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