Chapter one key terms
Across
- 2. Manages all of the devices connected to the computer and controls the internal operations of the computer's hardware.
- 4. Any low-level language that has a strong connection with instructions in the language and the architectures in machine code instructions.
- 6. The electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer system.
- 8. Unit of data that is eight binary digits long.
- 10. The physical and mechanical components of a computer system.
- 11. Scans the entire program and translates the whole of it into machine code at once.
- 13. A low-level language made of binary numbers.
- 14. A system of representing data using 0's and 1's.
- 17. Universal character encoding standard.
- 19. A piece of computer hardware that converts information into a readable form of use with other non-computerized equipment.
- 20. Takes basic computer instructions and converts them into a pattern of bits that the computer procce's and runs these basic operations.
- 21. Set of instructions commands and statements which is written by aogrammer by using a computer language.
- 23. Memory could be lost easily if the computer turns off.
Down
- 1. Known as auxiliary storage and is a non-volatile storage that is used to save data and programs for later retrieval.
- 3. Set of rules which defines how a Python program will be written.
- 5. A computer program used to run hardware or applications.
- 7. A technician who specializes in code.
- 9. CPU's primary method of program execution.
- 12. The hardware in a computing device that stores the operating systems and other programs while the computer is on.
- 15. Translates just one statement of the program at a time into machine code.
- 16. A device that allows for information to be entered into a computer.
- 18. A series of statements that have been designed to perform a specific task.
- 22. Smallest unit of computer data.