Introduction to Computer

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Who is known as the father of modern computer?

Charles Babbage.

Which machine was designed by Charles Babbage in the early 1820s?

Difference engine.

Who invented the tabulating machine?

Herman Hollerith.

The first programmable digital computer was the?

Mark I.

The main electronic component of the first generation of computers was the?

Vacuum Tube.

Which programming language was used during the first generation?

Machine language.

The second generation of computers introduced the use of?

Transistors.

Which generation introduced the microprocessor?

Fourth(4th)

The fifth generation of computer is mainly based on?

Artificial intelligence.

Which type of computer is the fastest?

Supercomputer.

A programmer wants maximum hardware control and the smallest possible program size. Which language is most appropriate?

JavaScript.

Which programming paradigm primarily organizes code around objects that contain both data and methods?

Object-Oriented.

Why are functional programming languages generally less prone to side effects?

They avoid mutable data and changing program state.

Which language appears in both the object-oriented and scripting categories in the lesson?

python

Which pair consists entirely of functional programming languages?

Procedural.

The identifier used to represent a blueprint of an object?

Class name.

Variables that store the characteristics of an object?

Data members.

Functions that define what an object can do?

Member functions.

An instance created from a class?

Object.

Lowest-level programming language?

Machine language.

Human-readable representation of machine instructions?

Assembly language.

Step-by-step instructions?

Procedural programming.

Organizes programs around objects?

Object-oriented programming.

Avoided in functional programming?

Functional programming.

Runs scripts written in languages like python or PHP?

Scripting language.

Uses zeros and ones?

Binary code.

Refers to the current object instance?

This.

Executes instructions directly from binary?

Mutable data.

Executes scripts at runtime?

Interpreter.