Module 06 Study Guide

Learning Objectives

• Understand what a variable is
• List the six attributes of a variable and explain what the name, address, value, and type attributes are
• Recognize the conventions governing naming in programming languages
• State the difference between keywords and reserved words
• Explain what bindings and binding times are and give examples of important bindings and binding times
• Distinguish between static and dynamic bindings
• Distinguish between static and dynamic typing, give examples of languages with static and dynamic typing, and explain their relative advantages and disadvantages
• Explain what memory allocation is
• Define the lifetime of a variable
• Distinguish the four variable lifetime categories of static, stack-dynamic, explicit heap-dynamic, and implicit heap-dynamic
• Give examples of variables with each of the four variable lifetime categories
• Explain the regions where memory is allocated for each of the four variable lifetime categories
• Explain what variables with different lifetimes are used for, and identify languages that provide variables in each variable lifetime category

Resources

• CPL 5.1-5.4
• Slides: Lam

Deliverables

The test for this module will be due on Canvas this Friday at the time given on the Canvas assignment. You will have an opportunity to re-take a different version of the same test next week. If you choose to do the re-take, your grade for this module will be the higher of the two scores.