ENGINEER 1D04- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 126 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Engineering (General)
• Course: ENGINEER 1D04
• Professor: Doug Down

Document Summary

For loops can always be converted into while loops. Not all recursive functions can become while loops. An extremely powerful and flexible problem solving tool. Something that every engineer needs to understand and be able to use. Values: the information (or data) stored and manipulated by computer programs. Expressions: a syntactic entity that denotes a value. Atomic expression is an identifier or a literal. Compound expression is formed by applying an operator to other expressions. The value of an expression is obtained by evaluating the expression. Types: a syntactic entity that denotes a collection of values of similar form. Type errors occur when a value of one type is used, where a value of another type is expected. Variables: a variable is a linguistic entity whose meaning can vary, the name bounded to a value, or an expression that deno tes the value. Constants: a linguistic entity whose meaning is fixed, such as true and false.