Pthyon term

Question 1

Operating system

Answer 1

Software that controls the internal operations of the computers hardware and devices

Question 2

Application software

Answer 2

Software that people spend most of their time running on their computers

Question 3

Keywords

Answer 3

Words that have a special meaning for a programming language also known as reserved words

Question 4

Operators

Answer 4

Symbols that perform operations on items of data

Question 5

ASCII

Answer 5

A set of numeric codes that represent English letters, punctuation and characters

Question 6

IDE

Answer 6

The development environment consisting of a text editor, compiler debugger and other utilities

Question 7

Machine language

Answer 7

Instructions written in a binary that a CPU can understand

Question 8

Source code

Answer 8

Programming statements that are written by the programmer

Question 9

Compiler

Answer 9

A program that translates source code into an executable file

Question 10

Syntax error

Answer 10

Mistakes in source that violate the rules of the programming language

Question 11

Assembly language

Answer 11

Uses short words instead of binary numbers as in structures for the CPU

Question 12

Low-level languages

Answer 12

Programming languages that require a lot of knowledge about the CPU

Question 13

High-level languages

Answer 13

Programming languages that are easy to understand and do not require detailed knowledge of how the CPU works

Question 14

print()

Answer 14

The python function that is used to print a message on the screen

Question 15

Interpreter