CS Trivia!

The C programming language is known as the predecessor to languages like C++ and Java. Which language is the predecessor to C?

• C#

• Lisp

• Fortran

• B

Answer explanation

B was developed as a typeless language in 1969 by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson.

Ritchie and Thompson then added data types to the language and it evolved into the language known as C.

Who developed the Java programming language?

• James Gosling

• Markus Persson

• David Baszucki

• Dennis Ritchie

Answer explanation

Java was created at Sun Microsystems, Inc. in 1991 by a team of researchers led by James Gosling

Who invented the first computer compiler? (a program that converts human-written code into code that computers can read)

• Ada Lovelace

• Alan Turing

• Charles Babbage

• Grace Hopper

Who is known as the "Father of Computer Science"

• Alan Turing

• George Ferguson

• Frederick Douglass

• Donald Knuth

What is the most popular programming language right now?

• Python

• Java

• C

• JavaScript

What is the best programming language?