Stepwise refinement involves:

...until each task can be written as a single function/procedure

Breaking a problem into progressively smaller tasks...

Breaking a problem into a few, large parts...

...until each task is mildly complex

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Functions and Procedures

Jack Travis 6 questions

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1Procedures can only return a single value.
1. ATrue
2. BFalse
2Which of these performs a single task?
1. AFunctions
2. BProcedures
3. CBoth
4. DNeither
3Functions and procedures are [blank_start]self-contained[blank_end] blocks of code, and use values as [blank_start]parameters[blank_end] for tasks.
1. Aparameters
2. Bself-contained
4Which type of variable do functions and procedures use to perform tasks?
1. ALocal
2. BGlobal
3. CBoth
5Passing by reference changes the value of the variable being used in a procedure/function.
1. ATrue
2. BFalse
6Stepwise refinement involves:
1. ABreaking a problem into a few, large parts...
2. B...until each task can be written as a single function/procedure
3. CBreaking a problem into progressively smaller tasks...
4. D...until each task is mildly complex