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Review Questions

  1. What are the steps involved in going from the specification of a problem to producing an executable program which will solve the problem?

  2. What types of error can occur in computing and at what stages of the processes of producing a program do they occur?

  3. When the program is running it produces a number that is too large to fit into the space allocated for it in memory. What type of error is this?

  4. A program runs without any errors being reported but outputs results that are wrong, what type of error is likely to have caused this?


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