Disscusion Questions

Please respond to all of the following prompts:

• How important is project planning before you start?

• Can you give an example of a task you or someone you know had good planning or bad or no planning?

• Can you give an example of something you have been involved in where the documentation was so good or so bad that influenced the outcome of the event?

Assignment

Review Chapter 2 and 3 in your textbook. Answer the following discussion questions in a Word file for submission:

Describe what a function is.

In PHP, what are the predefined global arrays, know as autoglobals, also known as?

• What is the difference between a LOCAL variable and a GLOBAL variable? What is the implication of assigning a value to either one of these within a function?

• Describe what is meant by "nested" decision-making structures.

• Where might you use the CASE statement?

• The SWITCH statement contains which components? Where would you use it in a program?

• Describe how the WHILE statement control structure repeatedly executes a statement or a series of statements. How/when does it stop executing the loop?

• What kind of statement keeps repeating until its conditional expression evaluates to false?