2. Software Engineering

Resource: read the book and/or Chapter 2 Powerpoint.

Reading Guide

1. Where does the word “coding” come from?

2. How is assembly laguage different from machine code?

3. What decade was FORTRAN created? Pascal? C++?

4. What type of program produces executables from the object code?

5. What is the difference between code compiled to machine instructions and interpreted code?

6. What are two advantages of byte code over machine code?

7. What does JIT mean? What does a JIT compiler do?

8. Who originated the term “bug” and why?

9. Compare syntax errors and logic errors.

10. What is the usual result of a runtime exception?

11. What are two traits your code needs in order to be reusable? (There are four and the last one in the list is the most important.)

12. Say you have a class named Dinosaur and everything in your program works. Change Dinosaur to dinosaur in every Java file… Does it still work? Explain.

13. What was the first popular object oriented language? Where was it made? What hope did the author have for it?

14. What makes inheritance useful? (Not the goals of inheritance.)