The number in parentheses at the end of an exercise refers to the learning objective lis...

The number in parentheses at the end of an exercise refers to the learning objective listed at the beginning of the chapter.

Mark the following statements as true or false.

a. The first device known to carry out calculations was the abacus. (1)

b. The calculating device Pascaline could perform only addition and subtraction. (1)

c. The CPU functions under the control of main memory. (2)

d. Information stored in secondary storage is permanent. (2)

e. The language of a computer is a sequence of 0s and 1s. (3)

f. In Unicode every character is coded as a sequence of 16 bits. (3)

g. ZB stands for zero byte. (3)

h. A program written in a high-level programming language is called a source program. (4)

i. A compiler translates the source program into an object program. (6)

j. A linker links and loads the object code from main memory into the CPU for execution. (8)

k. Processing of a C++ program includes six steps. (9)

l. The first step in the problem-solving process is to analyze the problem. (10)

m. The term OOD stands for object-oriented development. (10)

n. In object-oriented design, a program is a collection of interacting functions. (10)