History
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Programmers
Pot Luck
100
The father of computing.
Who is Charles Babbage?
100
An input device named after a rodent.
What is a mouse?
100
Instructions written in 0s and 1s.
What is machine language?
100
The people who write programs.
Who are programmers?
100
This type of language requires less memory and runs more quickly.
What is a low-level language?
200
After settling a patent dispute, this is computer is credited with being the first.
What is the Atanasoff-Berry computer (ABC)?
200
This output device displays information graphically.
What is the monitor?
200
One of these is used to translate programs into machine language.
What is assembler or compiler or interpreter?
200
This is what is written by a programmer.
What is a program or computer program?
200
This is the operating system that is running on this computer.
What is Windows?
300
This term was coined in 1990 and is the www of the internet.
What is the world wide web?
300
One of the three components of the main unit.
What is Arithmetic Logic Unit or Control Unit or Main Memory?
300
Memory aids or alphabetic abbreviations for instructions.
What is mnemonics?
300
The process of translating the computer solution into a language the computer understands.
What is coding?
300
A slightly more advance programming language than machine language.
What is assembly language?
400
This 1981 laptop computer sold for $1795 and weighed 23.5 pounds and is said to be the first commercially popular portable computer.
What is the Osborne 1?
400
This is the "brains" of the computer; it has many tiny integrated circuits on a small silicon chip.
What is the CPU or the processor?
400
This level of programming language is the easiest for people to read.
What is a high-level language?
400
This type of program requires the programmer to focus on the objects that the program can use to accomplish its goal.
What is an object-oriented program?
400
This is the main memory in a computer.
What is RAM?
500
This Department of Defense network is said to be the first computer network and eventually became the internet.
What is ARPANET? The Advanced Research Projects Agency network.
500
This device stores data permanently.
What is the hard drive?
500
When the programmer concentrates on the major tasks needed to accomplish a goal.
What is procedure-oriented programming?
500
This famous computer programmer created the Microsoft Disk Operating System.
Who is Bill Gates?
500
A zero represents this in machine language.
What is off?
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