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What is a programmer or software developer
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A Person with the training and skills that design, create and test computer programs
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What is CPU (microprocessors)
What is the fetch-decode-execute cycle? |
Central Processing Unit.
When a CPU executes the instructions in a program. |
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What are Bytes?
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Computer memory that is divided into eight bits. One byte can hold one letter of the Alphabet.
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 What are Bits? |
 It stands for binary digit. Holds a negative or positive charge. "1" is on and " 0" is off. |
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What letter is 01000001?
What is the largest number one byte can store? |
65 the letter A. 66 is the letter B. etc
255 (1+2+4++8+16+32+64+128= 255 |
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What is assembly language?
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It is an alternative to machine language. It uses short words instead of binary numbers.
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What are mnemonics?
What is a high level language? |
Short words used by machine language.
C++,Python,Java,etc. It is a new generation of programing language. |
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What is the set of rules that must be strictly followed when writing a program?
What is a operator? |
Syntax.
A operator performs various operations on data ( +,//.-) |
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What is the difference between compilers and interpreters?
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Interpreters (Python) programs both translates and executes the instructions in a high-level language program. Compilers translates high-level language program to a separate machine language program.
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The first step of cycle is to ____, or read, the next instruction from memory into the CPU.
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Fetch
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What is Execute?
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The last step in the cycle is to execute, or perform, the operation.
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This step the CPU _____ the instructions that was just ____from memory, to determine which operation it should perform.
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Decode, and fetched.
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