Cscn 230 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

CSCN 230 Chapter 1 Terminology Exam Questions Correctly Answered. An interconnection of computers and computing equipment that uses either wires or radios waves over small or large geographic areas - CORRECT ANSWER Computer Network A shorthand term often used to denote the transmission of radiated signals without the use of wires - CORRECT ANSWER Wireless A network that involves wireless transmissions over a short distance, such as a few meters. Often used between devices such as lapt...

CSC 230 - Exam 1 Study Review Test. What do imperative languages do? - CORRECT ANSWER They focus on how a computation should be performed What is a procedural language? - CORRECT ANSWER One that focuses on the actions performed by a collection of procedures (functions) What is an object-oriented language? - CORRECT ANSWER One that is comprised of a collection of objects, which have both state and operations. Object-oriented languages focus on the state of the objects. What is the g...

CSC 230 Test 1 Exam Questions Correctly Answered. imperative language - CORRECT ANSWER focused on how a computation should be performed (both C and Java) Phases of compilation - CORRECT ANSWER 1. compiler creates native machine code for target processor .c file (compilation unit) makes a .o (object file) 2. linker combines object files to make executable program combines other .o files and/or libraries, if used them 3. executable runs, is loaded into memory and run from main() ta...

CSC 230 Exam 1 Complete Test With Complete Solutions. preprocessor - CORRECT ANSWER a program that processes statements in a C program that begin with the symbol # Compiler - CORRECT ANSWER A computer program created to read an entire program and convert it into a lower-level language and ultimately to assembly language used by the processor. Linker - CORRECT ANSWER a program that combines the object program with other programs in the library, and is used in the program to create the ...

CSC 230 - Test 1: Study Guide Exam Questions Correctly Solved. What are the seven great ideas? - CORRECT ANSWER - Use abstraction to simplify design - Make the common case fast - Performance via parallelism - Performance via pipelining - Performance via prediction - Hierarchy of memories - Dependability via redundancy What is Machine Language? - CORRECT ANSWER The alphabet of the machine's language is binary, which contains the digits 0 and 1. What are instructions? - CORRECT A...

CSIS 110 - Introduction to Computer Science Study Guide Exam. Starting with the innermost layer, what are the six layers of a computing system ? - CORRECT ANSWER The six layers of a computing system are : 1)Information Layer 2) Hardware 3) Programming Layer 4) Operating System Layer 5) Application Layer 6) Communication Layer A ____________ _____________ is a dynamic entity, used to solve problems and interact with its environment. A computing system is composed of har...

CSCI 230 Exam 2 Review Practice Questions Correctly Solved. Binary search - CORRECT ANSWER division of the selected portion of the list is that is repeated until the item is found or if it is determined that the item is not in the list Sequential search - CORRECT ANSWER searching for an item in an unsorted list until it is found or at the end of the list Sorting - CORRECT ANSWER arranging the components of a list into order (for instance, words into alphabetical order or numbers into ...

CSC 230 Test 2 Exam Questions Correctly Answered. errno.h - CORRECT ANSWER Error codes reported by library functions and the OS ~ - CORRECT ANSWER bitwise complement, unary bitwise operator, works across all bits: x = ~x = & - CORRECT ANSWER bitwise and, binary bitwise operator, takes 2 arguments 0110 & 1100 = 0100 ^ - CORRECT ANSWER bitwise exclusive OR, binary bitwise operator, takes 2 arguments: 0110 ^ 1100 = 1010 | - CORRECT ANSWER bitwise inclusive OR, binary bitwis...