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Chapter 1 Introduction to Computers, Internet and World Wide Web 33
f) The only language that a computer can understand directly is called that computer's
.
g) The is the logical unit of the computer that coordinates the activities of all
the other logical units.
1.7 What do each of the following acronyms stand for:
a) W3C.
b) XML.
c) DB-API.
d) CGI.
e) XHTML.
f) TCP/IP.
g) PSP.
h) Tcl/Tk.
i) SSL.
j) HMD.
1.8 State whether each of the following is true or false. If false, explain your answer.
a) Inheritance is a form of software reusability in which new classes are developed quickly
and easily by absorbing the capabilities of existing classes and adding appropriate new
capabilities.
b) Pmw is a module that provides an interface to the popular Tcl/Tk graphical-user-interface
toolkit.
c) Like other high-level languages, Python is generally considered to be machine-independent.