Fill in the blanks in each of the following statements:

a) Computers process data under the control of sequences of instructions called __________.

b) A computer consists of various devices referred to as __________, such as the keyboard, screen, mouse, hard disks, memory, DVD drives and processing units.

c) Data items processed by computers form a(n) __________that becomes larger and more complex in structure as we progress from the simplest data items (called “bits”) to richer data items, such as characters, fields, and so on.

d) Computers can directly understand only their __________language, which is composed only of 1s and 0s.

e) The three types of computer programming languages discussed in the chapter are machine languages, __________ and __________.

f) Programs that translate high-level-language programs into machine language are called___________.

g) A(n)_____________ processor implements several processors on a single “microchip”—a dual-core processor has two CPUs and a quad-core processor has four CPUs.

h) Windows 10 introduced the_________for building Windows apps that run on desktop computers, notebook computers, tablets, phones, Xbox and even Microsoft’s new HoloLens augmented reality holographic headset—all using nearly identical code.