Problem Solving
True or False
Problem Solving is only useful for programming.
False
Most of the processing in the computer takes place here.
What is the CPU?
The creator of the first computer.
Who is Charles Babbage / Ada Lovelace
An emerging technology that is replacing jobs and helping students cheat but that is also making life easier and is helping develop medicine.
What is A.I.?
A reusable algorithm.
The step of the problem solving process where we brainstorm ideas to solve our problem.
What is the planning stage?
The type of processing compares one value to another to determine which one is larger.
What is comparison?
The founder of Microsoft
Who is Bill Gates?
An emerging technology that is being focused on by Tesla.
What are electric and self driving cars?
A series of steps taken to solve a problem or sort data, often in a computer.
What is an algorithm?
The step of the problem solving process where we create and try out the solution to our problem.
What is matching?
Code breaker who invented the algorithm.
Who is Alan Turing?
An emerging technology that can replace manual labor.
What are robots?
A type of data storage where new data is "enqueued" to the front of the line and can then be "dequeued" from the front of the line.
What is a queue?
The step of the problem solving process where we try to figure out all the aspects of the problem we want to solve.
What is the Analyze Stage?
The type of processing that increments or decrements a number.
What is counting?
German scientist who created the first coding language.
Who is Konrad Zuse?
An emerging technology that modifies or replaces parts of the human body.
What is biotechnology?
A type of data storage where new data is "pushed" to the top and can then be "popped" off of the top.
What is a stack?
The final stage of the problem solving process.
What is the Reflection Stage?
The type of processing that is often called Boolean decision making.
What is if/then statements?
The IBM personal computer that started the microcomputer revolution.
What is the Altair 8800?
What is quantum computing?
A type of data storage where a "pointer" finds a cell labeled with an "index" where specific data is stored.
What is an array?