Programming and Languages

1. Understand the six steps of programming.
2. Describe Step 1, program specification.
3. Describe Step 2, program design, and program design tools including  top-down program design, pseudocode, flowcharts, and logic structures.
4. Explain Step 3, coding the program.
5. Describe Step 4, testing the program, and tools for correcting programs.
6. Discuss Step 5, documenting the program.
7. Discuss Step 6, maintaining the program.
8. Describe CASE tools and object-oriented software development.
9. Explain the five generations of programming languages.

Key Terms

Ada	HTML	program analysis
applets	IF-THEN-ELSE structure	program definition
application generator	interpreter	program design
assembly language	Java	program flowchart
BASIC	levels of programming languages	program maintenance
C	logic error	programming
C++	logic structure	program module
COBOL	loop structure	program specification
coding	machine language	pseudocode
compiler	module	query language
computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tool	natural languages	selection structure
debugging	object-oriented programming (OOP)	sequence structure
desk checking	object-oriented software development	software development
documentation	Pascal	structured programming techniques
DO UNTIL structure	portable language	syntax error
DO WHILE structure	problem-oriented language	top-down program design
FORTRAN	procedural language	Visual Basic
generations of programming languages	program

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