Exam 1: Introduction to Computers and Programming

A __________________________ is a person with the training and skill needed to design,create,and test computer programs.

_______________ was the first high-level programming language designed that could perform complex mathematical calculations.

____________________ is the term used to refer to all the physical devices that make up a computer.

____________ software packages usually consist of a text editor,a compiler or interpreter,and tools for testing programs and locating errors.

Assembly language is referred to as a low-level language because it is close to the C++ language.

The _______________________ is used to encode real numbers to store them in the computer's memory.

USB drives store data in a special type of memory known as ____________________.

What is the encoding technique called that is used to store negative numbers in the computer's memory?

Data is not recorded magnetically on a(n)____________,but is encoded as a series of pits on the disk surface.

The CPU understands instructions in machine language,which are written in binary.

The disk drive is a secondary storage device that stores data by ________________ encoding it onto circular disks.

The main memory is called __________ because the CPU is able to quickly access data stored at any random location.

Programs that use an interpreter generally execute faster than compiled programs because they are already entirely translated into machine language when executed.

The statements that a programmer writes in a high-level language are called _________.

Each instruction written in a high-level programming language is called a statement.

The term software refers to all the physical devices,or components,that a computer is made of.

An ___________ is used to translate Assembly language programs to machine language to be executed by the CPU.

The ________________ is an extensive encoding scheme that is compatible with ASCII and can represent the characters of all the languages in the world.

Which of the following is not an example of operating system software?

Which computer language uses short words known as mnemonics for writing programs?