Computer Programming 2
Technology History
Key People in Technology
100

A step by step set of instructions for completing a task. These can be followed by both computers and people.

What is an Algorithm?

100

It turns electricity into light by sending the electric current through a thin wire called a filament.

What is a light bulb?

100

He is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.

Who is Alexander Graham Bell?

200

Rules for the correct spelling, grammar and punctuation in a programming language. It must be exactly correct in order to work properly. Each computer language has its own version of this.

What is Programming Syntax?

200

It is a machine that converts the heat energy of steam into mechanical energy by means of a piston moving in a cylinder.

What is a Steam Engine?

200

Considered the inventor of vaccination. He created the smallpox vaccine.

Who is Edward Jenner?

300

A popular, easy to learn and multi functional coding language in 2020.

What is Python?

300

It is a global network of billions of computers and other electronic devices. With it it's possible to access almost any information, communicate with anyone else in the world, and do much more.

What is the internet?

300

He is the founder of Apple.

Who was Steve Jobs?

400

A character or thing that can perform actions.

What is an object?

400

Invented in 1832, it is a device for transmitting and receiving messages over long distances starting with the letter 'T'

What is the Telegram?

400
She is considered a pioneer of computer programming. The came up with the terms "bug" and "debug."

Who was Grace Hopper?

500

Conditional statements are are fundamental coding concept. They tell the computer a condition to look for, and then what to do that condition exists.

What are IF then ELSE Statements?

500

It is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It has recorded some of the most detailed visible light images, allowing a deep view into space.

What is the Hubble Space Telescope?

500

She was a Polish physicist and created the theory of radioactivity. She was the first person in history to win two Nobel Prizes.

Who was Marie Curie?

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