Exam 1: The Craft of Programming

For string assignments, the value on the right must be a numeric literal or the name of a numeric variable.

There are three main categories of errors: logic errors (violations of language rules), runtime errors (incorrect instructions, such as adding instead of multiplying), and syntax errors (errors not known until the program runs, such as a missing data file).

A small area of memory, ____, contains instructions for the system to perform a self-test as it powers up and to load the operating system from hard drive storage into main memory.

The binary equivalent of 122 is ____.

The processor is an integrated circuit contained on a chip usually made of silicon.

The variables lastName and firstName are Strings and the variable hoursWorked is Numeric. Why would the following statements cause errors? LastName = 10 FirstName = hoursWorked

____ a variable simply informs the computer that you want to associate a particular name with a particular data type.

The most common types of output are to the user's screen (called "hard copy") or to a printer (called "soft copy").

Computer ____ is the process of formulating instructions to operate a digital computer, an electronic device that can receive, process, store, and send data.

The most common storage devices are electromagnetic hard drives, electronic USB flash drives and memory cards, and optical CDs and DVDs.

Memory locations are used to store strings, in other words, the numeric or text data you want to keep track of.

When analyzing a problem and developing an algorithm for a solution, listing the algorithm's components in the categories of input, processing, and output is helpful. This process is called ____.

Variables can be assigned the value of another variable, as long as they both have the same data type.

The ____ can be thought of as a traffic manager, which handles the instructions sent to it by application programs, the operating system, and system devices.

The following is an example of a(n) ____.

The most basic instructions to the computer's processor are stored as sequences of bits and make up the computer's ____.

The binary equivalent of 232 is ____.

If a string is a group of characters, it makes sense that you can make longer strings out of shorter ones by putting them together. This process is called ____.

The computer system unit (the box enclosing the equipment) includes the ____, which is the electronic circuit board that connects the system's main components.

RAM contains instructions for the system to perform a self-test as it powers up and to load the operating system from hard drive storage into main memory.