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Machine Language is
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Low level, hard for humans to understand
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Visual Basic is
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High level, understood by humans, consists of instructions such as Click, If, and Do
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A Compiler does what?
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Translates a high-level language into machine laguage
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A Visual Basic compiler points out...
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Certain types of errors during the translation process
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A program is
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A sequence of instructions.
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All programs have in common:
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- they take data and manipulate it to produce results
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Hardware
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The physical components of a computer..
Central Processing Unit Disk drive Monitor |
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Software
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The instructions that tell the computer what to do
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The programmer is
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The person who solves the problem and writes the instructions for the computer
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The user is
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Any person who uses the program written by the programmer.
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A step by step series of instructions to solve a problem is known as
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Algorithm
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What holds programs or data. Its name usually consists of letters, digits, and spaces
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A File
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What contains files and subfolders
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A Folder
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TextFiles\payroll.txt is an example of a
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Path aka Relative Path
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C:\Textfiles\Payroll.txt is an example of a
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Filespec aka Absolute Path
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