Programming Basics
11.1What the syllabus asks of you
- Implement and write pseudocode from a given design presented as either a program flowchart or structured English
- Write pseudocode statements for:
- the declaration and initialisation of constants • the declaration of variables • the assignment of values to variables • expressions involving any of the arithmetic or logical operators input from the keyboard and output to the console
- Use built-in functions and library routines
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Chapter 11: Programming basics
Drill this topic
All 2 questions on Programming Basics, untimed — answer on paper, then mark yourself against the mark scheme.
Make a worksheet
Choose the years and how many questions, then print it with the answers on separate pages.
2 questions
These are structured questions, answered in working rather than by picking an option, so they are not listed here one by one. The drill above puts each in front of you with its mark scheme to check against.

