Vocabulary
A sequence of instructions for carrying out a task.
What is an algorithm?
This language's inventor is called the Benevolent Dictator for Life.
What is Python?
CPU stands for central processing unit while GPU stands for graphical processing unit. This unit, however, is responsible for float arithmetic. (Complete answer only!)
What is a floating point unit?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Invented at the end of World War 1, this infamous enciphering device was widely considered to be unbreakable.
What is the Enigma Machine?
Dot-matrix. Laser. Jet.
What is a printer?
A statement that executes only if the desired truth value is met.
What is a conditional statement?
Most of the [backend] architecture of WhatsApp was written in this language used by telecom companies.
What is Erlang?
RAM is the volatile memory you write instructions to while a computer is powered on, while this writeable non-volatile memory is where you store your files when it's off.
What is storage [memory]?
Who is Charles Babbage?
The PSU delivers power to the computer. When it fails, this U will maintain power uptime for a limited time.
What is the UPS?
The process of repeating a task either indefinitely or when a set goal is achieved or a number of executions is met.
What is a loop / iteration?
Originally created to support another [famous] language's applets, this not-so-well-named programming language has one of the most number of frameworks in existence.
What is JavaScript?
I get plugged in all the time, else you won't see. I can be from 1.0 up until 2.1, but only fairly recently.
What is HDMI?
The first website was the intranet of this world-renowned institute.
What is CERN?
In a network interface card, numbers such as 10/100 or 2.5/5 refer to this.
What is megabits/gigabits per second/network speed?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: A computer program that takes multiple object files and combines them into one executable.
What is a linker?
Nowadays, Java is written in Java. However, its first compiler was written in this language.
What is C? (With a little help from C++)
Three letters and I'm a basic program, or maybe two. Double my first letter and I can bring down the internet for you.
What is DDoS?
The inventor of the first computer algorithm, Ada Lovelace, was trying to compute this mathematical sequence.
What are the Bernoulli numbers?
The UNIVAC is one of the first computers to ever be created. The VAC refers to this tubing that houses the logic circuitry.
What are vacuum tubes?
Considered to be the Holy Grail in reverse engineering, this term simply means the original and fundamental files that make up a computer program.
What is source code?
This "language" is the closest language to machine code.
What is assembly [language]?
I'm already 36, but just turned 11.
What is Microsoft Windows?
The longest standard English word you can write on one row of keys in a standard keyboard, which ironically owes it to the keyboard's predecessor.
What is TYPEWRITER?
This is where the BIOS stores the necessary start-up information to boot a computer.
What is CMOS?