CompTIA Tech+ CertMike: Prepare. Practice. Pass the Test! Get Certified!, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 25Programming Concepts: Objective 4.3: Explain the purpose and use of programming concepts

As you prepare for the Tech+ exam, you won’t need to know how to write code, but you will need to be familiar with the basic concepts of programming. You’ll encounter questions that ask you to understand and interpret pseudocode, and that requires understanding the use of variables, arrays, vectors, functions, and objects.

In this chapter, you’ll learn the material that you need to know about Tech+ objective 4.3. The topics covered in this chapter include:

• Identifiers
• Arrays
• Functions
• Objects

IDENTIFIERS AND ARRAYS

Variables and arrays are the basic constructs that we use to store data in memory. They’re crucial to the understanding ...