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Glossary of terms. (cont'd)
- CASSETTE
- A small, self-contained volume of magnetic tape used for data storage. Similar to a sound recording cassette.
- CHIP
- In microcircuitry, a single device, either a transistor or a diode, that has been cut from a larger wafer of silicon.
- COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)
- A high-level language developed in the early 1960's and used primarily for business applications.
- CODE
- Can be used as verb or noun. As a noun, it can apply to (1) the data, meaning the series of bits used to represent the characters, or (2) the programs, meaning the computer instructions as written in the programming language. As a verb, it means creating the coded data or programs.
- CODING
- The act of actually writing program statements.
- COMPILE
- To prepare a machine language program from a computer program written in another programming language by making use
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