CS 1
The set of steps used to solve a problem.
What is an algorithm?
A numerical value that corresponds to a unique element in a list/array.
What is an index?
A variable type that holds whole numbers
Integer
An outline or draft of a program, done in shapes.
Flowchart
When was the first computer invented?
1822
A collection of indexed values.
What is a list/array?
A program construct that allows for a block of code to be repeated multiple times?
What is a loop?
The name of the operating system on all student laptops.
ChromeOS
A detailed outline or rough draft of a program. Done in words.
Pseudocode
Who is the father of the computer?
Charles Babbage
A binary digit with two possible values, 0 or 1.
Bit
A tag-based programming language designed to create websites.
HTML
Data passed to a function.
What are parameters?
Smallest element used to make up an image on a display.
Pixel
Who made the first computer program?
Ada Lovelace
A sequence of binary digits made up of eight bits. It has 256 possible values
Byte
The cable type that uses light to transmit signals.
What is Fiber Optic Cable.
The specific part of the CPU that handles numerical calculations.
What is the ALU/FPU?
What delicious computer term did web browser programmer Lou Montulli coin to refer to information that is sent from the browser to the web server?
Cookies
The computer worm/forkbomb that shut down up to 10% of the internet in 1988.
What is the Morris Worm?
Why are computer programming errors or glitches called "bugs"?
A moth (or actual bug) was found inside of a computer.
(~1947, Year specification is not needed)
What is 1,073,741,824 bytes or 2^30 bytes.
Gigabyte
This type of computer utilizes qubits instead of standard bits to do computations.
What is Quantum Computer?
The website technology often abbreviated to CSS.
What is Cascading Style Sheets?
What was the name of the British computer that cracked the German codes during World War II?
Colossus