Exam 1: Introduction to Computers and Programming

Once you clearly understand what a program is supposed to do, you can ____________.

The Visual Studio ____________ window allows you to navigate among the files in a Visual C# project.

The term ____________ can be used to describe anything that uses binary numbers.

_____________ is an extensive encoding scheme that is compatible with ASCII and can also represent the characters of many of the world's languages.

Today, CPUs are small chips known as ____________.

The compact disc (CD) and digital versatile disc (DVD) are known as ____________ devices.

An operating system consists of assemblers, compilers, and utility programs.

The .NET framework provides classes to create Forms, TextBoxes, Labels, Buttons, and many other types of objects.

Objects that are visible in a program's graphical user interface are commonly referred to as ____________.

Most of a computer's RAM is stored in the same device that performs calculations.

You can think of secondary storage as the place where a computer carries out calculations.

Programs that make a computer useful for everyday tasks are known as ____________.

Today's microprocessors are less powerful than the larger electromechanical CPUs in early computers.

A(n) ____________ is a program that translates a high-level language program into a separate machine language program.

It is easy for people to write programs in machine language.

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

A logic error is a mistake that causes a program to generate incorrect results.

A binary number can represent only integer values less than 255.

RAM memory retains its contents when a computer is turned off.

The use of USB drives has declined dramatically in recent years in favor of superior devices such as floppy disk drives.