Key Terms

2. a storage device containing non-volatile flash memory, used in place of a hard disk because of its much greater speed
4. Adding 1 to a variable
6. to infer something not explicitly stated from existing information
8. a component in your device helps handle graphics-related work like graphics, effects, and videos
11. an individual who designs, programs, builds, deploys and maintains software using many different skills and tools
12. a changeable property or characteristic of some component of a program that can be set to different values
13. the component of a computer system that controls the interpretation and execution of instructions
14. the act of converting programs written in high level programming language, which is understandable and written by humans, into a low level binary language understood only by the computer
15. short term memory where data is stored as the processor needs it

1. a non-volatile computer storage device containing magnetic disks or platters rotating at high speeds
3. a sequence of instructions or code being repeated until a specific end result is achieved
5. identify and remove errors from (computer hardware or software)
7. a procedure used for solving a problem or performing a computation
9. in computer and software engineering is the process by which a computer or virtual machine reads and acts on the instructions of a computer program
10. a computer program that directly executes instructions written in a programming or scripting language, without requiring them previously to have been compiled into a machine language program