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WorksheetsCMP128 INTRO CONTENT
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
This man, owner of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), invented an Operating System perfect for the Personal Computer, called ____________, but failed to complete negotiations with __________, which might have changed the world of technology and its leader in business software development.
a)
QDOS, Microsoft
b)
CP/M, IBM
c)
DOS, Apple
d)
PC-DOS, Microsoft
2.
Circa 1975, these budding entrepreneurs used _____________ to write a compiler for a computer kit sold by MITS Corp. What was the name of the programming language, and the device they built the compiler for?
a)
PASCAL, Pascalene
b)
FORTRAN, Turing Machine
c)
Java, ENIAC
d)
Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC), Altair 8800
3.
Name these co-founders and their company.
a)
Gary Kildall and Herman Hollerith, IBM
b)
William Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft
c)
Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak, Apple
d)
William Gates and Steven Wozniak, DEC
4.
This tech-savvy bearded brainiac invented the first floppy diskette drive and a disk operating system (DOS) in the 1970's for his newest desktop computer, the second revision, because the first one wasn't enough to keep the doctor away. Who is he, and what was the name of that computer?
a)
Steve Jobs, Alto PC
b)
Paul Allen, The Granny Smith
c)
Steve Wozniak, Apple II
d)
Gary Kildall, Apple Macintosh
5.
Which high-level programming language is the focus of this course?
a)
C++
b)
JavaScript
c)
C#
d)
Java
6.
Which high-level programming language is named after a mathematician from the 1800's who made a mechanical device that could weave complex patterns in clothing based on punch card technology?
a)
FORTRAN
b)
PASCAL
c)
BASIC
d)
COBOL
7.
Which of these is NOT considered a high-level language?
a)
COBOL
b)
Python
c)
Binary
d)
Java
8.
All of these are scripting languages for Web Design, except:
a)
C++
b)
HTML 5
c)
CSS 3
d)
ASP
9.
The binary number 010000001 is equivalent to this decimal number, the ASCII equivalent of this capital letter.
a)
82, R
b)
65, A
c)
69, E
d)
78, M
10.
The two men on the left and right with one of their inventions of the 1970's.
a)
Paul Allen and William Gates, Founders of Apple Corp.
b)
Gary Kildall and Herman Hollerith, Founders of Digital Equipment Corporation
c)
William Gates and Steve Wozniak, Founders of Microsoft
d)
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Founders of Apple Corp.
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