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Quiz 8
What is an API, and what does it do?
Application Programming Interface. It defines a set of library functions or objects you can incorporate in your own programs.
Aardvarks, Peaches, and Iguanas: A shopping list for a very unusual grocery store.
If you're using the J2ME libraries, what kind of hardware is your program probably going to run on?
Mainframe enterprise-scale equipment.
Microcontrollers as in cell pones
Medium-sized desktop computers.
What does inheritance mean in object-oriented programming?
One program's capability to use all of another's disk space when it's deleted from the computer.
Using one class as a starting point for another class, which extends the parent class as needed.
A process by which a program isn't allowed to see internal members of a class, just the public functions and any variables made public.
True or False: The minimum hardware to run a Web site is a desktop computer.
True
False
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