languages
This language is currently the most popular language to use (in percentage of jobs)
What is python
what does the binary value 1001 represent in decimal?
what is 9
this pc was developed by two friends in 1977, this machine became one of the first big successes in home computing with its support for color graphics.
what is the Apple II
An algorithm is described as this
what is a step-by-step procedure or set of instructions for solving a problem or accomplishing a task.
This is represented by the multiplication sign and returns true when all inputs are true
What is AND gate
HTML stands for this
HyperText Markup Language
how many possible values are represented using 4 bits
What is 16 possible values
This type of computer, popular in the 1960's and 1970's, often required its own air-conditioned room with raised-floor cooling
What is mainframe computer
What searching algorithm repeatedly divides a sorted list in half to find a value?
what is a binary search
This is represented by the addition sign and returns true when at least one input is true
What is OR gate
CSS stands for this
What is Cascading Style Sheets
What does CPU stand for
What is Central Processing Unit
This was the first president to use a smart phone in office
What is Barack Obama
the name of an algorithm that calls itself is this.
What is a recursive algorithm / recursion.
This logic gate inverts any input given to it.
What is NOT gate
This programming language is commonly used by engineers and scientists for matrix-based calculations and data visualization.
What is MATLAB
What part of an operating system is responsible for managing hardware resources such as the CPU and memory?
What is the kernel
Before keyboards and monitors were common, early computers often received programs and data using these holes punched into stiff paper cards.
What are punch cards?
the Big-O complexity of a basic linear search is this.
What is O(n)
This logic gate outputs true only when the inputs are different.
What is XOR gate
This language is the first widely used high level programming language
What is FORTRAN or COBOL
What happens when a program requests more memory than is currently available in physical RAM?
What is the OS uses virtual memory/secondary storage/harddrive
This computer scientist served in the navy as a admiral and was the oldest ever person to be a active admiral in the US navy
What is Grace Hopper
the worst-case Big-O complexity of quicksort is this.
what is O(n²)
These gates are able to build any other kind of gate.
What is NAND and NOR