CMSI 182 -  Introduction to Computer Science

Study Guide for Test 2

Chapter 6  Software Engineering

• Describe each of the following: (p. 210)
• program
• programming system
• programming system product
• Give the guidelines for programmer productivity, in terms of numbers of instructions per programmer-year (p.211)
• What is sofware engineering?  (p. 213)
• Describe the following three areas of software engineering: (p. 213)
• Correctness
• Organizational Schemes
• Programming Tools
• Give the stages of the program life cycle.  (p. 216)

Chapter 15 Artificial Intelligence

Chapter 10  Virtual Environments for Computing

• What is a virtual environment? (p. 318)
• What is an operating system? (pp. 318, 323, top of 325, top of 330)
• Name some operating systems. (p. 318)
• What are the four major kinds of services to the user that the operating system provides? (p. 326)
• What is a file? (p. 335)
• Given the diagram presented in class of a computer system as layers of hardware and software, and given a set of terms, put the terms in their proper place in the diagram.
• What is a virtual machine? (p. 346)
• Hardware as a Memory Hierarchy
• What is data processing in terms of this hierarchy?
• What are the various memory devices and where do they fit in this hierarchy?
• Command Line Interface
• Describe
• Name an O/S that has a command line interface.
• Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Describe
• Name two O/S's that have a GUI.