CUP&A - Dev Day - Quiz

Who is the first computer programmer?

• Adda Lovelace

• Ada Lovelace

• Augusta Ada Lovelace

• Ada Lovelaesce

Answer explanation

Ada Lovelace, in full Ada King, countess of Lovelace, original name Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron, is an English mathematician whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer.

He has been the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. since 2011 after Steve Jobs resigned. Who is he?

• Andy Jassy

• Jeff Bezos

• Tom Read

• Tim Cook

The world's first computer virus is called The Creeper Program. It was designed as an experimental program to see if a self-replicating program was possible.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

As noted by Discovery, the Creeper program, often regarded as the first virus, was created in 1971 by Bob Thomas of BBN. Creeper was actually designed as a security test to see if a self-replicating program was possible. It was—sort of. With each new hard drive infected, Creeper would try to remove itself from the previous host. Creeper had no malicious intent and only displayed a simple message: "I'M THE CREEPER. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!"

What does CSS stand for?

• Computing Style Sheet

• Creative Style System

• Cascading Style Sheet

• Creative Style Sheet

This programming language was first named as Oak. It was named after an oak tree that grown outside founder's office. What is this famous programming language called now?

• JAVA

• PYTHON

• JAVASCRIPT

• C

Answer explanation

The JAVA language was previously called Oak. It was named after an oak tree that was grown outside James Gosling’s office (Gosling is best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java coding language). Later, it was renamed Java, from Java coffee (a kind of coffee from Indonesia).

Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of what famous social media platform?

TRUE or FALSE: Before creating the “C”, one of the most well-known programming languages, there was a predecessor coding language known as the “B”.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The CAPTCHA test which detects robots from humans was developed by whom?

• Steve Russel

• Dennis Ritchie

• Charles Babbage

• Alan Turing

Manufacturers state clock speed (the speed at which a processor executes instructions) in __________, which equate to one million and one billion ticks of the system clock, respectively.

• megahertz (MHz) and gigahertz (GHz)

• kilobytes per second (kbps) and megabytes

• kilobytes (KB) and megabytes (MB)

• milliseconds (ms) and nanoseconds (ns)

One of those many tiny dots of colored light that make up a digitized image is a _____.