Exam 1: Introduction to Computers and Programming

When a computer is performing the tasks that a program tells it to do, we say the computer is running, or ____________ the program.

In a text-based environment, such as a command line interface, the user determines the order in which things happen.

In Visual Studio, a window cannot float if its Auto Hide feature is turned on.

A digital song is broken into small pieces known as ____________.

You must use a class to define an object before it can be created in memory at runtime.

Flowcharting is a tool that programmers use to design programs, and is considered superior to pseudocode.

An algorithm written out in plain English statements is called ____________.

When Auto Hide is turned on, a window is displayed only as a tab along one of the edges of the Visual Studio environment.

The C# language allows you to write your own classes that have specific fields, properties, and methods for any application.

The C# language provides classes and other code necessary for creating GUIs and performing many other advanced operations.

The computer CPU can only execute machine language programs.

Software development tools control the internal operations of the computer's hardware, mange all the devices connected to the computer, allow data to be saved to and retrieved from the storage devices, and allow other programs to run on the computer.

Virtually all nontrivial code contains syntax errors when it is first written.

The programs that control and manage the basic operations of a computer are generally referred to as ____________.

____________ refers to all the physical devices, or components, of which a computer is made.

The computer's CPU can anticipate what a programmer wants to do.

Disk drives and recordable optical disk drives can be considered input devices or output devices.

A computer's ____________ is the part of the computer with which the user interacts.

____________ is a term used for data a computer collects from users and other devices.

For many years, the only way that the user could interact with a computer was through a command line interface.