Starting out with Programming Logic
and Design by Tony Gaddis, Chapter
10 Complete Answers
End-Of-File (EOF) Marker - ANSWER-A special character or set of characters used
to indicate where the file's contents end. Differs from system to system.
Read Position - ANSWER-Special value that is internally maintained for each
individual input file. Marks the location of the next item that will be read from the file
in question.
Append Mode - ANSWER-Features in most programming languages that allows you
to ppen an output file. Also means two things.
First off, If the file exists, it will not be erased. If it does not, then it will be created.
And second, When data is written to the file it will do so at the end of the file's current
contents.
Record - ANSWER-Complete set of data that describes one item.
Field - ANSWER-A single piece of data within a 'Record'.
File Specification Document - ANSWER-Describes the fields that are stored in a
particular file, including data types.
Control-Break Processing - ANSWER-Means that a program performing some
ongoing task temporarily interrupts that task when a control variable changes its
value. Some other action is them performed before resuming the original task.
Print Spacing Chart - ANSWER-Sheet of paper with a grid (I.E. graph paper)
sometimes used to help write programs that print reports on paper.
Output File - ANSWER-A file that data is written to.
Called this because the program stores 'output' in it.
Input File - ANSWER-A file that data is read from.
Called this because the program gets input from the file.
Two types of files - ANSWER-Text File (and) Binary File
Text File - ANSWER-Contains data that has beed encoded as text, using a scheme
such as ASCII or Unicode. As such the data is saved in the file in a series of
characters, hence the name.
and Design by Tony Gaddis, Chapter
10 Complete Answers
End-Of-File (EOF) Marker - ANSWER-A special character or set of characters used
to indicate where the file's contents end. Differs from system to system.
Read Position - ANSWER-Special value that is internally maintained for each
individual input file. Marks the location of the next item that will be read from the file
in question.
Append Mode - ANSWER-Features in most programming languages that allows you
to ppen an output file. Also means two things.
First off, If the file exists, it will not be erased. If it does not, then it will be created.
And second, When data is written to the file it will do so at the end of the file's current
contents.
Record - ANSWER-Complete set of data that describes one item.
Field - ANSWER-A single piece of data within a 'Record'.
File Specification Document - ANSWER-Describes the fields that are stored in a
particular file, including data types.
Control-Break Processing - ANSWER-Means that a program performing some
ongoing task temporarily interrupts that task when a control variable changes its
value. Some other action is them performed before resuming the original task.
Print Spacing Chart - ANSWER-Sheet of paper with a grid (I.E. graph paper)
sometimes used to help write programs that print reports on paper.
Output File - ANSWER-A file that data is written to.
Called this because the program stores 'output' in it.
Input File - ANSWER-A file that data is read from.
Called this because the program gets input from the file.
Two types of files - ANSWER-Text File (and) Binary File
Text File - ANSWER-Contains data that has beed encoded as text, using a scheme
such as ASCII or Unicode. As such the data is saved in the file in a series of
characters, hence the name.
