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The word ‘polymorphism’ literally means ‘a state of having many shapes’ or ‘the capacity to take on different forms’. When applied to object oriented programming languages like Java, it describes a langua...

For this question you should firstly lay out your placeholders for an 8 bit binary number, from 2^0 up to 2^7 (1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128). Then you find how 183 as a positive number would be represented in bin...

Virus: This type of malware is able to self-replicate, it is deployed once the user opens its host files- possibly in the form of an E-mail attachment. Once opened the virus will become a memory resident,...

Inheritance is a useful and powerful concept in object-oriented programming languages, such as Java and C++. Inheritance is used to provide subclasses with the same instance variables and operations as th...

A thin client is a simple computer with basic hardware. In networking, these are used as access points for a user, using the resources of a central server.The simplicity of the hardware means that for man...