WGU D234 PRACTICAL EXAM WITH Q UESTION AND
ANSWERS 2025
Whitespace - ANS - Refers to blank spaces (space and tab characters) between items within a statement,
and to newlines. Whitespace helps improve readability for humans, but for execution purposes is mostly
ignored.
Pseudocode - ANS - Text that resembles a program in a real programming language but is simplified to
aid human understanding.
Assignment statement - ANS - Assigns a variable with a value, such as x = 5. An assignment statement's
left side must be a variable. The right side is an expression.Examples: x = 5, y = a, or z = w + 2.
= - ANS - In programming, = is an assignment of a left-side variable with a right-side value. It does not
represent equality like in mathematics.
Variable declaration - ANS - Declares a new variable, specifying the variable's name and type.
Program - ANS - Consists of instructions executing one at a time.
Input - ANS - A program gets data, perhaps from a file, keyboard, touchscreen, network, etc.
Process - ANS - A programs performs computations on that data, such as adding two values like x + y.
Output - ANS - A programs puts that data somewhere, such as to a file, screen, network, etc.
Computational thinking - ANS - Creating a sequence of instructions to solve a problem.
Algorithm - ANS - A sequence of instructions that solves a problem.
, Statement - ANS - Carries out some action and executing one at a time.
String literal - ANS - Consists of text (characters) within double quotes, as in "Go #57!".
Cursor - ANS - Indicates where the next output item will be placed in the output.
Newline - ANS - A special two-character sequence \n whose appearance in an output string literal causes
the cursor to move to the next output line. The newline exists invisibly in the output.
Comment - ANS - Text added to a program, read by humans to understand the code, but ignored by the
program when executed.
Identifier - ANS - A name created by a programmer for an item like a variable or function. An identifier
must: be a sequence of letters (a-z, A-Z), underscores (_), and digits (0-9), AND start with a letter or
underscore.
Reserved word or keyword - ANS - A word that is part of the language, like integer, Get, or Put. A
programmer cannot use a reserved word as an identifier.
Lower camel case - ANS - Abuts multiple words, capitalizing each word except the first, such as
numApples.
Underscore separated - ANS - Words are lowercase and separated by an underscore, such as
num_apples.
Expression - ANS - A combination of items, like variables, literals, operators, and parentheses, that
evaluates to a value. Example: 2 * (x+1)
Literal - ANS - A specific value in code, like 2.
Operator - ANS - A symbol that performs a built-in calculation, like the operator + which performs
addition.
ANSWERS 2025
Whitespace - ANS - Refers to blank spaces (space and tab characters) between items within a statement,
and to newlines. Whitespace helps improve readability for humans, but for execution purposes is mostly
ignored.
Pseudocode - ANS - Text that resembles a program in a real programming language but is simplified to
aid human understanding.
Assignment statement - ANS - Assigns a variable with a value, such as x = 5. An assignment statement's
left side must be a variable. The right side is an expression.Examples: x = 5, y = a, or z = w + 2.
= - ANS - In programming, = is an assignment of a left-side variable with a right-side value. It does not
represent equality like in mathematics.
Variable declaration - ANS - Declares a new variable, specifying the variable's name and type.
Program - ANS - Consists of instructions executing one at a time.
Input - ANS - A program gets data, perhaps from a file, keyboard, touchscreen, network, etc.
Process - ANS - A programs performs computations on that data, such as adding two values like x + y.
Output - ANS - A programs puts that data somewhere, such as to a file, screen, network, etc.
Computational thinking - ANS - Creating a sequence of instructions to solve a problem.
Algorithm - ANS - A sequence of instructions that solves a problem.
, Statement - ANS - Carries out some action and executing one at a time.
String literal - ANS - Consists of text (characters) within double quotes, as in "Go #57!".
Cursor - ANS - Indicates where the next output item will be placed in the output.
Newline - ANS - A special two-character sequence \n whose appearance in an output string literal causes
the cursor to move to the next output line. The newline exists invisibly in the output.
Comment - ANS - Text added to a program, read by humans to understand the code, but ignored by the
program when executed.
Identifier - ANS - A name created by a programmer for an item like a variable or function. An identifier
must: be a sequence of letters (a-z, A-Z), underscores (_), and digits (0-9), AND start with a letter or
underscore.
Reserved word or keyword - ANS - A word that is part of the language, like integer, Get, or Put. A
programmer cannot use a reserved word as an identifier.
Lower camel case - ANS - Abuts multiple words, capitalizing each word except the first, such as
numApples.
Underscore separated - ANS - Words are lowercase and separated by an underscore, such as
num_apples.
Expression - ANS - A combination of items, like variables, literals, operators, and parentheses, that
evaluates to a value. Example: 2 * (x+1)
Literal - ANS - A specific value in code, like 2.
Operator - ANS - A symbol that performs a built-in calculation, like the operator + which performs
addition.
