Intro to Info Tech 3.1 Vocab Review

Standard for representing text that most computers support 

• Bytecode

• American Standard Code for Information Interchange

• Code

• Computer Algorithm

similar to machine language, but the CPU cannot directly understand it 

• Code

• Encoding

• Assembly Language

• Computer algorithm

basic building block for communication in an electronic computer

• Bit

• Byte

• Code

• Compiler

equivalent to eight bits 

• Bit

• Byte

• Bytecode

• Encoding

set of instructions composed of compact numeric codes, constraints, and references that can be efficiently processed by an interpreter 

• Code

• Assembly language

• Computer algorithm

• Bytecode

results of encoding 

• Code

• Encoding

• Data type

• Compiler

converts the programmer’s code into code the CPU can understand 

• Byte

• Compiler

• Data type

• American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Series of steps used to perform an action 

 

• Assembly language

• Compiler

• Computer algorithm

• Bit

description of values or information that can be accepted 

• Code

• Data type

• Encoding

• Bytecode

process of converting human-readable data and computer programs into a computer-readable format 

• coding

• encoding

• computer algorithm

• assembly language