A computer includes both _____ and _____.

Hardware is the _____ aspect of the computer that can be touched.

Computer programs, known as software, are the _____ instructions that control the hardware and make it perform tasks.

Computer programming is the writing of _____ (i.e., code) for computers to perform.

The _____ is a computer’s brain. It retrieves instructions from memory and executes them.

Computers use zeros and ones because digital devices have two _____ states, referred to by convention as zero and one.

A bit is a _____digit 0 or 1.

A byte is a sequence of _____ bits.

A _____byte is about 1,000 bytes.

A _____byte about 1 million bytes

A _____byte about 1 billion bytes

A _____byte about 1,000 gigabytes

Memory stores data and program _____ for the CPU to execute.

A memory _____ is an ordered sequence of bytes.

Memory is _____, because information is lost when the power is turned off.

Programs and data are permanently _____ on storage devices and are _____ to memory when the computer actually uses them.

The machine language is a set of _____ instructions built into every computer.

Assembly language is a _____ programming language in which a mnemonic is used to represent each machine-language instruction.

_____languages are English-like and easy to learn and program.