HISTORY
ACRONYMS
DSA
FUN FACTS
TRUE OR FALSE
100

Method used to feed instructions into early computing machines

Punch Cards

100

CPU & GPU

Central Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit

100

Data Structure that uses a Last In First Out (LIFO)

Stack

100

operating system whose mascot is Tux the penguin

Linux

100

the term bug became popular due to a moth being trapped in Harvard's Mark II

True

200

The father of computer science

Alan Turing

200

ALU

Arithmetic Logic Unit

200

Data structure best suited to print documents in a printer

Queue

200

computer accessory invented by Doug Engelbart. First was made from wood

mouse

200

A compiler runs the program line by line

False (Interpreter)

300

Person known as the "World's First Programmer"

Ada Lovelace

300

API

Application Programming Interface

300

Time Complexity of Binary Search

O(log n)

300

operating system founded by Andy Rubin

Android

300

www stands for World Wide Web

True

400

Name of the computer that correctly predicted the outcome of the 1952 american presidential elections

UNIVAC

400

USB

Universal Serial Bus
400

Algorithm used to find the shortest path in a weighted graph

Dijkstra

400

Google's Original Name

BackRub

400
Dr Colmenares specializes in Graphical User Interfaces

FALSE (HPC / GPU)

500

Name of the British computer that cracked the German codes during World War II

Colossus

500

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

500

data structure used to handle collisions in hash tables and name of the technique

Linked List, Chaining

500

inspiration of the name "cookie" for web cookies

fortune cookies (message wrapped in a container)

500

The CS department consists of 8 faculty members

TRUE (+100 if you can name them all)

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