Fill in the blanks in each of the following statements:

a) The programs that run on a computer are referred to as ________.

b) Systems such as smartphones, appliances, game controllers, cable set-top boxes and automobiles that contain small computers are called ________.

c) Just as characters are composed of bits, ________are composed of characters or bytes.

d) Information on secondary storage devices is ________; it’s preserved even when the computer’s power is turned off.

e) Translator programs called ________convert high-level language code into machine language code.

f) In object-oriented programming languages, we create a program unit called a(n) ________to house the set of methods that perform its tasks.

g) Use a building-block approach to creating your programs. Avoid reinventing the wheel—use existing pieces wherever possible. Such software ________is a key benefit of object-oriented programming.