Chapter 1
| 1: | What does portability mean in the context of programming? |
| A1: | A perfectly portable program is one whose source code can, without modification, be compiled to a successful program on a variety of different computer systems. |
| 2: | Explain the difference between source code file, object code file, and executable file. |
| A2: | A source code file contains code as written in whatever language the programmer is using. An object code file contains machine language code; it need not be the code for a complete program. An executable file contains the complete code, in machine language, constituting an executable program. |
| 3: | What are the seven major steps in programming? |
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