Computer Science: Chapter 1
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What French mathematician built and sold the first gear-driven mechanical machine that did addition and subtraction?
Who built the first mechanical machine that did addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division?
Who designed the first mechanical machine that included memory?
Who was considered the first programmer?
Who proposed that a punched card be used for counting the census?
Who edited Babbage’s work?
Who was Ada Lovelace’s father?
Who would have been mentioned in the book the Code Breakers?
Who developed the concept of punched holes used in weaving cloth?
Who is associated with IBM?
Which generation are circuit boards from?
Which generation are transistors from?
Which generation are magnetic core memories from?
Which generation are card inputs / outputs from?
Which generation is parallel computing from?
Which generation is magnetic drum from?
Which generation are magnetic tape drives from?
Which generation are integrated circuits from?
Which generation is the personal computer from?
Which generation are vacuum tubes from?
Which generation is large scale integration from?
Which generation is the magnetic disk from?
Which generation is networking from?
Which generation are assemblers from?
Which generation is FORTRAN from?
Which generation are operating systems from?
Which generation is structured programming from?
Which generation is timesharing from?
Which generation is HTML (for the Web) from?
Which generation are loaders from?
Which generation are spreadsheets from?
Which generation are word processors from?
Which generation is Lisp from?
Which generation is PC-DOS from?
Which generation is loaders / blinkers bundled into an operating system from?
Which generation is Java from?
Which generation is SPSS from?
Which generation is C++ from?
What do we mean by the statement that “the 1980s and 1990s must be characterized by the changing profile of the user”?
Why was Mosaic important?
Discuss the browser wars.
Describe how the Web changed after 2002.
Name the four areas in which the practitioner must be skilled.
Distinguish between computing as a tool and computing as a discipline.
Is computing a mathematical discipline, a scientific discipline, or an engineering discipline? Explain.
Distinguish between systems areas and applications areas in computing as a discipline.
What is cloud computing?
Define the word protocol and explain how it is used in computing.
Distinguish between machine language and assembly language.
Distinguish between assembly language and high-level languages.
FORTRAN and COBOL were two high-level languages defined during the second generation of computer software. Compare and contrast these languages in terms of their history and their purpose.
Distinguish between an assembler and a compiler.
Distinguish between a systems programmer and an applications programmer.
What was the rationale behind the development of operating systems?
What constitutes systems software?
What does a loader do?
What does a blinker do?
What does a editor do?
How was the program SPSS different from the programs that came before it?
What is the definition of an abstraction?
What is the definition of computer hardware?
What is the definition of computer software?
What is the definition of a computing system?