Exam 1: Introduction to Computers and Programming

The largest value that can be stored in a byte is 1.

The term pixel stands for picture element.

A(n) ____________ stores data by magnetically encoding it onto a circular disk.

In a flowchart, the ____________ symbol marks the program's starting point.

____________ are small devices that plug into the computer's USB port and appear to the system as disk drives.

Programs are commonly referred to as ____________.

The compact disk (CD) and digital versatile disk (DVD) are known as ____________ devices.

In programming, an object is a physical device.

A computer's ____________ is the part of the computer with which the user interacts.

The ____________ window shows the application's form and allows you to visually design its appearance by placing the desired controls that will appear on the form when the application executes.

Programming languages have ____________ that perform various operations on data.

The C# language provides the classes and other code necessary for creating GUIs and performing many other advanced operations.

One ____________ is enough memory to store only a letter of the alphabet or a small number.

There are two general categories of software: system software and application software.

A logic error is a mistake that prevents the program from running.

The ____________ is considered by many to be the world's first programmable electronic computer.

The individual instructions that you use to write a program in a high-level programming language are called ____________.

Inside the solution folder, you can double-click the ____________ to open the project in Visual Studio.

The ____________ is the part of a computer that actually runs programs.

If a program's source code contains a syntax error, it can be translated to machine language.