Recent Lessons

Show all results for ""

Feature Overview

Ace your exams with our all-in-one platform for creating and sharing quizzes and tests.

Quizzes

Create quizzes and tests automatically from your content using AI.

Flashcards

Automatically turn your notes into digital flashcards.

Share, Export & Embed

Share with classmates or export to Excel and your learning management system.

Stats & Reporting

Auto-grading quizzes and tests with detailed stats and reports.

Mobile Apps

The smarter way to study – wherever you are.

Pricing

Search...

10 Questions

0 Views

What is a Compiler in Computing?

Choose a study mode

Play Quiz

Study Flashcards

Spaced Repetition

Chat to lesson

Podcast

Play an AI-generated podcast conversation about this lesson

Questions and Answers

In computing, a compiler is a computer program that

is used to compile big sets of data.

has been used in the early days of computing to work with piles of punched cards.

translates source code from a high-level programming language to a lower level language to create an executable program. (correct)

In the imperative programming paradigm the programmer.

gives explanations of the program's logic in a natural language interspersed with snippets of traditional source code.

instructs the machine how to change its state. (correct)

declares properties of the desired result, but not how to compute it.

Purely functional languages don't have loops, because...

loops are inefficient.

loops use too much memory.

they don't have mutable variables. (correct)

All but one of the following Haskell expressions are equivalent. Which one is different?

\n -> n Signup and view all the answers

What makes a recursive function definition tail recursive?

There's exactly one recursive call and its return value is immediately returned by the calling function. Signup and view all the answers

Which technique can be used to transform a recursive function definition into an equivalent tail recursive function definition?

Accumulating parameters Signup and view all the answers

Evaluate the Haskell expression foldr (-) 1 [2,3]

0 Signup and view all the answers

In Haskell a list [1, 2, 3] is just syntactic sugar for

1:(2:(3:[])) Signup and view all the answers

The worst case time complexity to access a random element is...

O(1) for arrays and O(n) for lists. Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following Haskell data type definitions uses type recursion?

data Tree a = Tip | Branch (Tree a) a (Tree a) Signup and view all the answers