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15 Cards in this Set
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is the equipment of a computer system.
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Hardware
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consists of the programs that tell the computer what to do.
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Software
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devices that include keyboards, and mice. through these devices, data items enter the computer system. Data can also enter a system from storage decives such as magnetic disks and CD's.
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Input
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includes all the text, numbers, and other information that are processed by a computer.
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Data
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data items may involve organizing them, checking them for accuracy. or performing mathematical operations on them.
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Processing
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is the piece of hardware that processes data.
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The central processing unit, or (CPU)
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Visial Basic, C#, C++, Java, or COBAL are what?
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Program language's
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The computer's on/off circuitry language is what?
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Machine language
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What translates a high-level language into machine language and tells you if you have used a programming language incorrectly?
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A Compiler or Interpreter
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you devlop the ____ of the computer program when you give instructions to the computer in a specific sequence, without leaving any instructions out or adding extraneous instructions.
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logic
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What occurs when a correct word is used in an incorrect context?
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A semantic error
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memory, main memory, primary memory, and random access memory (RAM) are called
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Internal storage.
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storage outside the main memory of the machine, on a device such as a floppy disk, hard disk, or magnetic tape is the...
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External storage
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a low-level language made up of 1's and 0's that a computer understands is
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Machine language
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_____ represents the relationship of databases, files, records, fields, and characters.
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The data hierarchy
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