Daily Practice · GCSE Computer Science

Daily Practice - GCSE Computer Science

28th November 1996

5 questions · GCSE · 123 questions in this band

1
Ethical, Legal, Cultural and Environmental Impact
State one reason a small business might choose to use open source software instead of proprietary (closed source) software.
2
Network Protocols and Layers
Give two reasons why network communication is divided into layers.
3
Algorithms
An array called items contains [12, 45, 7, 30, 19] at indices 0 to 4. Describe how a linear search would locate the value 30, stating the number of comparisons needed.
4
Translators and Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
Describe what syntax highlighting is and how it helps a programmer.
5
1D and 2D Array Processing: Writing and Tracing Programs
An array named temps holds 12 values. State the index of the first item and the index of the last item.

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