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11 Cards in this Set
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computer |
an electronic device capable of performing commands (input, output, storage, arithmetic and logic operations) |
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hardware |
the physical components of a computer and its surrounding (peripheral) devices; basic components include 1) CPU and main memory 2) secondary storage 3) input and output devices |
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software |
programs; sets of instructions to be executed by the computer |
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system software |
programs designed to control the computer |
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operating system |
a set of programs that control overall computer activity and provide services (Linux, Windows) |
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application software |
programs designed to perform specific tasks |
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editor |
program used to create and modify text based files (emacs) |
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machine language |
instructions made up of sequences of 0s and 1s; only language directly understood and executed by the computer; machine dependent |
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assembly language |
instructions made up of mnemonic codes; must be translated to machine language by a program called an assembler; machine dependent |
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high-level language |
instructions closer to natural language (familiar words and symbols); machine independent; examples include BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal, Java, C, C++; in order to be executed, a high-level language program must be translated by a compiler |
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compiler |
a program that translates instructions written in a high-level language into the equivalent machine code (g++) |
