CIS 1103 Week_4 ClO1 (Part 1)

Software is best defined as

• Pogramming language

• Program

• Tool

• Logical hardware

The two types of Software are

• System and Spreadsheets

• CPU and Databases

• System and Applications

• System and Utilities

The best answer that describes a program is

• Stored in RAM

• Executed in Secondary storage

• A language used by humans

• A sequence of instructions

What does humans use to give instructions to a machine

• Algorithm

• Machine code

• Computer programming language

• Pseudo code

Human-readable instructions are described as

• Encoded in a language that the CPU can understand

• Encoded in a language that only computers can understand

• Encoded in binary code

• Encoded in a language that humans can understand

Machine-readable instructions are described as

• Encoded in a language that is known as high-level

• Encoded in a language that only computers can understand

• Encoded in a special language called Java

• Encoded in a language that humans can understand

Examples of High-level languages include

• C++, C#, BASIC, Python, JavaScript

• Assembly language, Machine code

• Languages that reflect the working of the CPU

• Binary code, Pseudo code