Programming for Engineers

The linker creates____

an executable image

What is bandwidth?

information carrying capacity

____ involves reworking programs to make them clearer and easier to maintain while preserving their correctness and functionality.

Refactoring

Which of the following statements is true?

Compilers translate high-level language programs into machine language programs

Which of the following is going to be the key programming methodology for the next decade?

object-oriented programming

Which of the following would not be considered hardware?

an operating system

Which of the following languages was an ancestor of C?

B

A ____ is an electronic collection of data that’s organized for easy access and manipulation.

database

______ models software in terms similar to those that people use to describe real-world object

Object-oriented design

Programs or data not actively being used by the other units are placed on the ____

secondary storage unit

A computer can directly understand only its own ____

machine language

Which of the following is not an advantage of object-oriented programming?

None of the above—these area all advantages of object-oriented programming

Assemblers

Convert assembly language into machine language

Which of the following statements is false?

Windows is an open-source operating system

Which of the following is not one of the three general types of computer languages

Spoken languages

____ are essentially reusable software components that model items in the real world

objects