General Topics Digital Basics Instructions & Programs Where Is Waldo? True or False
The merging of digital devices into a single platform, such as cell phones which also play digital music and display digital video.
What is CONVERGENCE ?
The term used to refer to the non- material place where information & things exist in a virtual 'world' of the Internet.
What is CYBERSPACE ?
To convert non-digital information or media to a digital format.
What is DIGITIZATION ?
The process of transferring a file from a remote computer to a local computer's storage device.
What are DOWNLOADING?
It contains data. It is saved to a storage medium. It has an individual name.
What is a FILE ?
Circuits that hold op codes & operands between RAM and the CPU’s registers.
What is CACHE ?
Numbers are held here until the Arithmetic Logic Unit receives the instruction what to do with the numbers.
What are REGISTERS ?
The unit inside the CPU that manages the flow of data through the CPU.
What is the CONTROL UNIT ?
The part of the CPU that performs arithmetic and logical operations.
What is the ALU or ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT ?
After the ALU processes data, it places the result of any calculation into this location.
What is an ACCUMULATOR ?
They write programs to make computers do things.
What are computer PROGRAMMERS ?
Programming code before it is compiled or interpreted.
What is SOURCE CODE ?
C, Basic, COBOL and Java are examples of this.
What are computer LANGUAGES ?
A programmer’s source code is converted into machine code one line at a time by this.
What is an INTERPRETER ?
It converts programs into a machine language file that contains this kind of code.
What is OBJECT CODE ?
The main processing microchip that contains the control unit, registers, ALU, & accumulator
What is the CPU or CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT ?
It holds the data waiting to be processed by the CPU.
What is RAM ? Random Access Memory
These allow you to add peripherals or additional capabilities to the motherboard
What are EXPANSION slots ?
These allow peripherals to be plugged into the motherboard
What are PORTS ?
These connectors provide for this vital capability of computers.
What is SECONDARY STORAGE ?
A megabyte is 1024 bits.
FALSE
Microprocessors are a type of integrated circuit
TRUE
C, COBOL, and Java are examples of programming languages
TRUE
A compiler converts source code to object code
TRUE
a microprocessor’s instruction set is called machine language
TRUE