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Csc 221 Midterm Questions And Answers Latest Update
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- CSC MISC
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- Jackson State University
Csc 221 Midterm Questions And Answers Latest Update
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Csc 221 Midterm Questions And Answers
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Syntax ANS✔✔ The form of a language
Semantics ANS✔✔ The meaning of a construct
Data ANS✔✔ the information that a computer program manipulates
Interpreted Programs ANS✔✔ a computer program that stimulates the
behavior of a computer that understands a high-level language. It executes
the lines of source by one and carries out the operations.
High-level programming language ANS✔✔ programming language that
enables a programmer to write programs that are more or less independent
of a particular type of computer
Secondary Memory ANS✔✔ A generic term referring to nonvolatile storage
devices such as hard discs, floppy discs, magnetic tapes, CD-ROMs, DVDs,
etc.
Intractable problems ANS✔✔ Too difficult to be solved, usually because it
would take a long time
Low-level programming language ANS✔✔ programming language that
provides little or no abstraction from a computer's instruction set
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architecture—commands or functions in the language map closely to
processor instructions. Generally this refers to either machine code or
assembly language.
Main Memory ANS✔✔ Place where all data and program instructions that the
CPU is currently working on resides. Also known as random access memory
(RAM)
Random Access Memory (RAM) ANS✔✔ Same as Main Memory
Integers ANS✔✔ a whole number that can be positive, negative, or zero.
Lists ANS✔✔ a general python data type for representing sequential
collections. Heterogeneous and can grow and shrink as needed. Items are
accessed through subscripting.
Strings ANS✔✔ a sequence of one or more characters (letters, numbers,
symbols) that can be either a constant or a variable. Immutable or
unchanging.
ASCII ANS✔✔ American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A
standard for encoding text where each character is represented by a
number 0-127.
+ ANS✔✔ addition
- ANS✔✔ subtraction
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