Question:Why are the external subroutines used for?
External subroutines are used for tasks that more than one program is likely to want performed : for example, calculating a square root.
Question:What is Modular programing ?
An early stage in the devloment of structured programing.A program is broken down in to pieces,or modules which can be coded and tested separately.
Question:Define output editing.
Operations performed on output to be printed to make it easier for a human being to read and understand, such as inserting commas and decimal points, suppressing leading zeros, and including dollar sign.
Question:What do you mean by structured programing ?
A collection of techniques for the planing and writing of programs that increases programmer productivity,e.g.,top-down programing and the use of loop,selection and sequence structures.
Question:What is memory?
A portion of the computer in which data, instructions. and the results of processing can be stored.
Question:what is a register?
A register is a special-purpose memory device in the computer. This location is the position in memory of the instruction following the call instruction.
Question:How many major function have the numbers and the gross pay?
There are three major function of the numbers and the gross pay. They are -
(a) Reading the data
(b) Processing it
(c) Printing the result
Question:What do you mean by top down programming ?
Top down programming means techniques for planning a structured program in which the entire program is first broken down into three modules:
(a) The processing that takes place before any data is processed.
(b) The processing of data and
(c) The processing that takes place after all data records have been read.
Question:What do you mean by selection stucture ?
The ability to choose between two alternative courses of action on the basis of whether a condition is true or false.
Question:What do you mean by pseudocode ?
A way to represent instructions that uses ordinary English; a planning tool for structured programming.