Exam 1: An Overview of Computers and Programming Languages

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

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Analog signals represent information as a sequence of 0s and 1s.

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The first device known to carry out calculations was the Pascaline.

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The ASCII character set is a superset of the Unicode character set.

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The source program is written in ____.

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Bytecode is the machine language for ____.

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The central processing unit (CPU) is the brain of the computer and the single most expensive piece of hardware in your personal computer.

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The first step in OOD is to identify the components called ____.

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To run a Java ____, you use a Web browser.

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When the power is switched off, everything in ____ is lost.

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To run a Java application program, a program called a(n) ____ loads the .class file into computer memory.

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The system program that loads first when you turn on your PC is called the application system.

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Each memory cell has a unique location in main memory, called the ____.

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The Unicode character set consists of 128 characters.

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The arithmetic and logical operations are carried out inside the ____.

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In a Java program, the file name must be the same as the ____ name.

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To develop a program to solve a problem, you start by ____.

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____ are continuous waveforms.

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Main memory is the same as the random access memory.

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The most basic language of a computer is a sequence of 0s and 1s called machine language.

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