Java, Java, Java Object-Oriented Problem Solving, 2024E

Subsection 0.10.2 Thinking Exercises

1. Explain the difference between each of the following pairs of concepts.

   1. hardware and software

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   2. systems and application software

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   3. compiler and interpreter

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   4. machine language and high-level language

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   5. general-purpose and special-purpose computer

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   6. primary and secondary memory

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   7. the CPU and the ALU

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   8. the Internet and the WWW

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   9. a client and a server HTTP and HTML source and object code

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2. Identify the component of computer hardware that is responsible for the following functions.

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   1. executing the fetch-execute cycle

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   2. arithmetic operations

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   3. executing instructions

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   4. storing programs while they are executing

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   5. storing programs and data when the computer is off

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3. Explain why a typical piece of software, such as a word processor, cannot run on both a Macintosh and a Windows machine.

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4. What advantages do you see in platform independence? What are the disadvantages?

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5. In what sense is a person’s name an abstraction? In what sense is any word of the English language an abstraction?

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6. Analyze the process of writing a research paper in terms of the divide-and-conquer and encapsulation principles.

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7. Analyze your car by using object-oriented design principles. In other words, pick one of your car’s systems, such as the braking system, and analyze it in terms of the divide-and-conquer, encapsulation, information-hiding, and interface principles.

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8. Make an object oriented analysis of the interaction between, a student, librarian, and a library database when a student checks a book out of a college library.

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