revised: 09/23/99

Quiz on for Loops


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1. What are the three general types of looping structures?

a. counting loop,  sentinel-controlled loop,  and result-controlled loop.
b. infinite loop, counting loop, nested loop
c. while loop, for loop, do loop
d. count up loop, count down loop, infinite loop

2. What is the output of the following program fragment? 

for ( int j = 0;  j <  5; j++ )
{
  System.out.print( j + " " );
}
System.out.println( );

a. 0 1 2 3 4 5
b. 0 1 2 3 4
c. 0 1 2 3 4 5
d. j j j j j

3. What is the output of the following code fragment? 

for ( int j = 10;  j >  5; j-- )
{
  System.out.print( j + " " );
}
System.out.println( );

a. 10 11 12 13 14 15
b. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
c. 10 9 8 7 6 5
d. 10 9 8 7 6

4. What must the test be so that the following fragment prints out the integers 5 through and including 15? 

for ( int j = 5;  ________ ; j++ )
{
  System.out.print( j + " " );
}
System.out.println( );

a. j<15
b. j<=16
c. j<16
d. j==15

5. What must the change be so that the following fragment prints out the even integers 0 2 4 6 8 10? 

for ( int j = 0; j <= 10; _______   )
  System.out.print( j + " " );
System.out.println( );

a. j+2
b. j = j+2
c. j++++
d. ++j++

6. What must the initialization be so that the following fragment prints out the integers -3 -2 -1 ? 

for ( _______; j < 0; j++    )
  System.out.print( j + " " );
System.out.println( );

a. int j = 0
b. int j < 0
c. int j = -3
d. int j = -4

7. What is the output of the following code fragment? 

for ( int j = 5;  j > -5; j-- )
  System.out.print( j + " " );

System.out.println( );

a. -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0
b. 5 4 3 2 1 0
c. 5 4 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5
d. 5 4 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3 -4

8. What is the output of the following code fragment? 

int count = 0;
for ( ;  count < 9; ++count )
  System.out.print( count + " " );

System.out.println( );

a. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
b. Nothing --- the program will not compile.
c. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
d. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

9. What is the output of the following code fragment? 


for ( int count = 0;  count < 9;   )
  System.out.print( count + " " );
  count++ ;
System.out.println( );

a. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
b. Nothing --- the program will not compile.
c. count count count count count count count count count
d. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...

10. What is the output of the following code fragment? 

int j;
for ( j = 0;  j < 5;   )
{
  System.out.print( j + " " );
  j++ ;
}
  
System.out.println( );

a. 0 1 2 3 4
b. Nothing --- the program will not compile.
c. 1 2 3 4 5
d. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...

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