Chapter 1 Q
In a broad sense, the two primary categories of programming languages are:
Low-level and High-level
Which of the following is not one of the five major components of a computer system?
Preprocessor
The computer's main memory is commonly known as:
RAM
At the heart of the computer is its central processing unit. The CPU's job is
To carry out the operations commanded by the instructions. To produce some outcome or resultant information. To fetch instructions.
A CPU really only understands instructions that are written in machine language.
True
What does the term hardware refer to?
the physical components that a computer is made of
An example of a secondary storage device is:
a hard disk
Which of the following best describes an operator?
An operator allows you to perform operations on one or more pieces of data.
________ are used to translate each source code instruction into the appropriate machine language instruction.
Compilers
This term refers to the programmer reading the program from the beginning and stepping through each statement.
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