COMP 249- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Computer Sci.
• Course: COMP 249
• Professor: Aiman Hanna

Document Summary

Study guide: explicate in detail about program development life cycle. (c10, describing the problem: programmers must develop a complete description of the problem. The problem statement identifies the task: making a plan: the problem statement is translated into a set of specific steps that describe exactly what the computer program must do to complete the work. The steps are known as an algorithm: coding: algorithm is translated into programming code, debugging: code goes through process of debugging. Programmers repair any errors found in the code: finishing the project: software is tested and the results of the entire project are documented, explain in detail about programming languages and selecting right language. (c10) Assembly languages allow programmers to write their programs using a set of short, english-like commands that speak directly to the cpu: (3gl) uses symbols and commands to help programmers tell the computer what to do.