YR8 - Computing History & Influential People

Who was the first to use an abacus?

• Tim Warner

• Bill Gates

• The Romans

• The Greeks

Who invented the first calculator?

• Blaise Pascal

• Ada Lovelace

• Bill Gates

• Alan Turing

Ada Lovelace is recognised to be the...

• a famous poet

• a code breaker

• first computer programmer

This is a photo of Bletchley Park. What happened here?

• Alan Turing was born here.

• Code breakers used computational models to decrypt enemy messages in WW2.

• The first computer was invented here.

Alan Turing was a code breaker in WW2. What else is he famous for?

• Writing the worlds first computer game.

• Inventing the difference engine

• Proving machines are capable of processing a stream of 1's and 0's.

• Inventing the first calculator

Why did Blaise Pascal invent the calculator?

• Calculating taxes

• Calculate profits and losses

• Collecting taxes

• Calculate peoples grades

The Colosuss was the world's first electronic, digital and programmable computer. Why else was it famous?

• It overheated and set itself on fire.

• It was fast.

• It was massive in size.

• It could add and subtract numbers.

The term 'debugging' means that you look for and fix errors in code. This term was invented by Dr. Grace Hopper after a moth flew into a military computer and caused an error.

• False

• True

Jack Kilby invented the first [___________] in 1959.

• Personal Computer

• Printed Circuit Board

• Computer Valve

• Computer Code

Bill Gates started coding at 13. He dropped out of university to begin which company?

• Apple

• Windows

• Microsoft

• IBM