Computer Scientist
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Computer Terminology
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How Comp. Have changed your world
100
Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper developed this computer program which translates higher level programming languages into machine-code
Compiler
100
This symbol can be used in your programs to ensure that the following text will not be executed.
What is a #?
100
This term refers to raw data and figures that are entered into or collected by a computer for future use.
What is Data?
100
This type of programming error occurs when you break the rules of the programming language.
What is a syntax error?
100
Technologies that support virtual communities and the sharing of content
What is Social Media?
200
This British Mathematician developed the concept of a programmable digital computer, and worked with Ada Lovelace to design the first mechanical computer, The Analytical Engine.
Who is Charles Babbage?
200
When making a flow chart, this shape is used to represent information that is requested or provided, otherwise called input or output.
A parallelogram
200
This term refers to a set of instructions for the computer to follow to process the data. Refers to aspects of computing you can not physically touch. All programs and applications.
What is software?
200
This term identifies these three icons, >>>, within python
What is a prompt?
200
Transmitting and receiving data in a continuous, steady flow; used frequently for video and sound data.
What is Streaming?
300
The work conducted at this complex in New Jersey, founded in 1925, resulted in 9 Nobel Prizes and is the place where William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain invented the transistor in 1947.
What is Bell Labs?
300
This method of creating a plan is done through text within your program that is not executed.
Pseudocode
300
This category of hardware are external to the computing device and provides a way of inputting data or receiving data outputs. Includes a mouse, printer, speakers, and microphones.
What is a Peripheral?
300
These two Steves sold personal items to start their own business in which they were the first to release a mass-market computer with a graphical user interface and a mouse.
Who are Jobs and Wozniack
300
Globally, the number of internet users increased from only 413 million in 2000 to 3.4 billion in 2016, with users generating 2.5 quintillion (18 0s, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes of data each day. With all this data, this phenomenon can occur due to too much issue being available about any given issue.
What is Information Overload?
400
A concept in which programs are stored in memory with data, John Von Neumann developed this model that is used in almost all computers today.
What is Nuemann Architecture?
400
This shape is used to represent a decision made within a flowchart.
What is a Diamond?
400
This type of software is what allows the user to interact with a device and control the hardware. Includes Windows, IOS, and Mac-OS
What is System Software?
400
Thanks to IBM releasing the personal computer which utilized their operating system, MS-DOS, and the growth of the personal computer market and clones of the personal computer also using their software, these two computer scientist quickly became billionaires and leaders in the tech world.
Who are Bill Gates and Paul Allen?
400
These two often confused terms refer to the act of applying a digital reality, either as a supplement imposed over reality or to immerse the user in a digital world.
What is Virtual and Augmented Reality?
500
This network was created in the late 1960's to connect geographically separated researchers with high powered research computers across the United States led to the development of the internet as we know it today.
What is ARPANET
500
These 4 lines of psuedocode represent the plans for a program that ask the user for three numbers and finds the average.
What are:
# ask the user for three numbers
# add the numbers
# divide by 3
# print the average
500
This term refers to the process in which data and software that is being accessed is stored on devices for immediate use. It's characteristics include being volatile and non permanent.
What is memory?
500
These four terms make up a cycle that repeats over and over to complete instructions within programs.
Fetch, Decode, Execute, Store
500
Refers to the increasing accessibility of technology, allowing more people to access and create content and applications
What is Democratization of Technology?