Fundamentals of Java Chapter 1: Background
UNIT 1—GETTING STARTED WITH JAVA
CHAPTER 1—BACKGROUND
EXERCISE 1.2
1. What is the difference between a bit and a byte.
2. Name two input devices and two output devices
3. What is the purpose of auxillary storage devices?
4. What is RAM and how is it used?
5. Discuss the difference between hardware and software.
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EXERCISE 1.3
1. Translate 111000112 to a base 10 number.
2. Translate 45B16 to a base 10 number.
3. What is the difference between Unicode and ASCII?
4. Assume that 4 bits are used to represent the intensities of red, green, and blue.
How many total colors are possible in this scheme?
5. An old-fashioned computer has just 16 bits available to represent an address of a
memory location. How many total memory locations can be addressed in this
machine?
EXERCISE 1.4
1. State two of the difficulties of programming with machine language.
2. State two features of assembly language.
3. What is a loader, and what is it used for?
4. State one difference between a high-level language and assembly language.
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EXERCISE 1.5
1. What happens during the Analysis and Design phase of the waterfall model of
software development?
2. Which phase of the waterfall model of software development incurs the highest
cost to developers?
3. Why would a programmer back up to an earlier phase in the waterfall model of
software development?
4. In which phase of the waterfall model of software development is the detection
and correction of errors the least expensive?
EXERCISE 1.6
1. In what way is programming like planning the construction of a house?
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2. An object-oriented program is a set of objects that interact by sending messages to
each other. Explain.
3. What is a class, and how does it relate to objects in an object-oriented program?
4. Explain the concept of inheritance with an example.
5. Explain the concept of information hiding with an example.
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REVIEW QUESTIONS
Written Questions
1. What are the three major hardware components of a computer?
2. Name three input devices.
3. Name two output devices.
4. What is the difference between application software and system software?
5. Name a first-generation programming language, a second-generation
programming language, and a third-generation programming language.
Fill in the Blank
1. All information used by a computer is represented using __________ notation.
2. The ______________________ phase of the software life cycle is also called the
coding phase.
3. More than half of the cost of developing software goes to the ________________
phase of the software life cycle.
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4. ACM stands for __________________________________________
5. Copyright law is designed to give fair use to the public and to protect the rights of
_______________ and ______________________
CRITICAL THINKING
You have just written some software that you would like to sell. Your friend suggests that
you copyright your software. Discuss why this might be a good idea.
