Self-Review Exercises

14.1Fill in the blanks in each of the following statements:

  1. Ultimately, all data items processed by a computer are reduced to combinations of _____ and _____.

  2. The smallest data item a computer can process is called a(n) _____.

  3. A(n) _____ can sometimes be viewed as a group of related records.

  4. Digits, letters and special symbols are referred to as _____.

  5. A database is a group of related _____.

  6. Object _____ normally enables a program to output error messages to the screen.

14.2Determine which of the following statements are true and which are false. If false, explain why.

  1. The programmer must explicitly create the stream objects System.in, System.out and System.err.

  2. When reading data from a file using class Scanner, if the programmer ...

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