Exam 1: An Overview of Computers and Programming Languages

The programming language C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Laboratories in the early ____.

Information stored in main memory must be transferred to some other device for permanent storage.

The machine language version of the high-level language program is called a(n)____________________.

C++ programs have always been portable from one compiler to another.

The term GB refers to ____.

____ consists of 65,536 characters.

Main memory is called ____.

The device that stores information permanently (unless the device becomes unusable or you change the information by rewriting it)is called primary storage.

The command that does the linking on Visual C++ 2010 Express and Visual Studio 2010 is Make or Remake.

A program called a(n)____________________ translates the assembly language instructions into machine language.

____ represent information with a sequence of 0s and 1s.

When the computer is turned off,everything in secondary memory is lost.

The ____ is the brain of the computer and the single most expensive piece of hardware in your personal computer.

The digit 0 or 1 is called a binary digit,or ____.

The ____ monitors the overall activity of the computer and provides services.

Several categories of computers exist,such as ____.

When you compile your program,the compiler identifies the logic errors and suggests how to correct them.

A sequence of 0s and 1s is sometimes referred to as ____________________ code.

____ programs perform a specific task.

A program called a(n)____ translates instructions written in high-level languages into machine code.