C Primer Plus (5th Edition)
| 1: | Give a reason why computers pervade our society today. |
| 2: | What are the differences between being a computer programmer and an end user? |
| 3: | Give a brief description of how the world is viewed from an object-oriented programmer's point of view. |
| 4: | What are the two basic parts of a computer? |
| 5: | What is software? |
| 6: | How does the computer user interact with the computer? |
| 7: | What is a processor? |
| 8: | Name the two computer memory categories. Briefly describe each one of them. |
| 9: | What data would be involved in calculating the average monthly rainfall in New York during year 2000? |
| 10: | What are bits and bytes? |
| 11: | How many different numbers can be represented by one byte? |
| 12: | How does the main memory organize the data it is storing? |
| 13: | What are files used for? |
| 14: | What is a source program? |
| 15: | How can you recognize a C# source program file? |
| 16: | Describe what a compiler does? |
| 17: | List a few of the services provided by .NET |
| 18: | What is MSIL? How does it improve the .NET architecture over previous architectures? |