Programming Logic and Design Comprehensive Ninth Edition Chapter 1 Questions and Answers

Programming Logic and Design
Comprehensive Ninth Edition Chapter
1 Questions and Answers

Information - ANSWER-processed data

Storage devices - ANSWER-types of hardware equipment, such as disks, that hold
information for later retrieval

Cloud - ANSWER-refers to remote computers accessed through the internet

Programming languages - ANSWER-used to wite programs

Program code - ANSWER-the set of instructions a programmer writes in a
programming language

Coding the program - ANSWER-the act of writing programming language
instructions

Syntax - ANSWER-a languauges grammer rules

Syntax errors - ANSWER-errors in langauge or grammer

Computer memory - ANSWER-temporary, internal storage within a computer

Random Access Memory (RAM) - ANSWER-temporary, internal computer storage

Volatile - ANSWER-storage whose contents are lost when power is lost

Nonvolatile - ANSWER-storage whose contents are retained when power is lost

Machine language - ANSWER-a computer's on/off circuitry language

Source Code - ANSWER-the set of statements a programmer writes in a
programming language

Object Code - ANSWER-the set of machine language statements that have been
translated from source code

Compiler/Interpreter - ANSWER-translates a high-level language into machine
language and indicates if you have used a programming language incorrectly

Binary Language - ANSWER-represented using a series of 0s and 1s

Run (execute) - ANSWER-to carry out a program's instructions