Explain the difference between each of the following pairs of concepts.
hardware and software
systems and application software
compiler and interpreter
machine language and high-level language
general-purpose and special-purpose computer
primary and secondary memory
the CPU and the ALU
the Internet and the WWW
a client and a server HTTP and HTML source and object code
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Identify the component of computer hardware that is responsible for the following functions.
executing the fetch-execute cycle
arithmetic operations
executing instructions
storing programs while they are executing
storing programs and data when the computer is off
Explain why a typical piece of software, such as a word processor, cannot run on both a Macintosh and a Windows machine.
What advantages do you see in platform independence? What are the disadvantages?
In what sense is a person’s name an abstraction? In what sense is any word of the English language an abstraction?
Analyze the process of writing a research paper in terms of the divide-and-conquer and encapsulation principles.
Analyze your car by using object-oriented design principles. In other words, pick one of your car’s systems, such as the braking system, and analyze it in terms of the divide-and-conquer, encapsulation, information-hiding, and interface principles.
Make an object oriented analysis of the interaction between, a student, librarian, and a library database when a student checks a book out of a college library.