CODING BASICS
What is used to write instructions for a computer?
The part of the computer which you type on.
Keyboard
The Founder of Apple.
Steve Jobs
A type of wireless connection used in most modern-day homes.
Wi-Fi
The company that developed the operating system Windows.
Microsoft
A symbol used to start a comment in Python
#
The company that produces the most Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)
NVIDIA
The founder of SpaceX and Tesla, also playing a major role in the creation of PayPal.
Elon Musk
A kind of software is used to access websites and browse the internet.
Web browser
The first commercially successful personal computer was made by this company
Apple
A keyword used to repeat a set of instructions.
The "brain" of the computer, responsible for processing instructions.
Central Processing Unit (CPU)
The first computer programmer who worked on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Ada Lovelace
An abbreviation that refers to a unique address that identifies a website on the internet.
URL
The law that predicts the number of transistors on a microchip doubles approximately every two years.
Moore's law
A container that holds multiple values in programming
A list
The hardware component that stores data temporarily while a computer is running.
RAM
The father of modern computer science and invented the Turing Test.
Alan Turing
The man credited with creating the World Wide Web in 1989.
Tim Berners-Lee
The use and development of computer systems that are able to learn and adapt without following explicit instructions.
Machine Learning
A data structure that follows the Last In, First Out (LIFO) principle.
A stack
A tiny, fast memory chip is located inside the CPU and stores frequently used instructions and data to speed up processing.
Cache
A pioneering computer scientist developed the first compiler and popularized the term "debugging" after finding a moth in a computer.
Grace Hopper
The symbol used to send the first email.
@
A cyber attack that floods a system with traffic to make it unavailable.
DDoS