Computer Science: Crash Course
Computer Science: Crash Course
Computer Science
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6 Episodes
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#1 - Early Computing
1. What was the earliest recognized device for computing? ________________
4. The earliest documented use of the word “computer” is from a book written in the year ____
6. The gear-based calculating device, built by Gottfried Leibniz in 1694, was known as ________
7. Before the 20th century, most people experienced computing through ________________
8. Militaries were among the first to apply computing to complex problems, such as _________
10. Unlike all other computational devices before it, the Analytical Engine was a ____________
11. Which English mathematician is often considered the world’s first programmer? _________
12. The Analytical Engine would inspire, arguably, the first generation of ________________
13. Which English polymath is often considered the "father of computing"? ________________
14. Hollerith's “electro-mechanical” tabulating machine was used during the census of _______
16. To meet demand for his tabulating machines, Hollerith founded ________________
#1 - Early Computing
1. What was the earliest recognized device for computing?
A. the abacus
2. Where and when was the abacus invented?
A. in Mesopotamia around 2500 BCE
3. Which device enabled sailors to calculate their latitude at sea?
A. an astrolabe
4. The earliest documented use of the word “computer” is from a book written in the year ___
A. 1613
5. In the early days, a "computer" was ___
A. a person who did calculations
6. The gear-based calculating device, built by Gottfried Leibniz in 1694, was known as ___
A. the step reckoner
7. Before the 20th century, most people experienced computing through ___
A. pre-computed tables
8. Militaries were among the first to apply computing to complex problems, such as ___
A. calculating range tables
9. In 1822, Charles Babbage proposed a mechanical device called ___
A. the difference engine
10. Unlike all other computational devices before it, the Analytical Engine was a ___
A. “general purpose computer”
11. Which English mathematician is often considered the world’s first programmer?
A. Ada Lovelace
12. The Analytical Engine would inspire, arguably, the first generation of ___
A. computer scientists
13. Which English polymath is often considered the "father of computing"?
A. Charles Babbage
14. Hollerith's “electro-mechanical” tabulating machine was used during the census of ___
A. 1890
15. Hollerith’s machine stored data on a series of ___
A. punched cards
16. To meet demand for his tabulating machines, Hollerith founded ___
A. The Tabulating Machine Company
#2 - Electronic Computing
1. Completed in 1944, it was one of the largest electro-mechanical computers ever built: _____
2. The electrically-controlled mechanical switches used in early computers were called _______
3. You can think of a relay like a water faucet. The control wire is like the ________________
4. A good relay in the 1940’s might be able to flick back and forth ________________
5. For the Harvard Mark I, complex operations, like a trigonometric function, could take ______
6. On average, one faulty relay on the Harvard Mark I would need replacing every __________
7. What type of "bug" was pulled from the Harvard Mark II in September 1947? ___________
8. Who said, "When anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."? _______
9. In 1904, English physicist John Ambrose Fleming developed the first ________________
10. An electronic component that permits the one-way flow of current is called ____________
11. In 1906, what did Lee de Forest add to the Fleming valve? ________________
12. The first large-scale use of vacuum tubes for computing was ________________
13. Who built an electro-mechanical machine, called the Bombe, at Bletchley Park? __________
15. In 1947, what new electronic switch was built by Bell Laboratory scientists? _____________
16. A material that can sometimes conduct electricity and other times resist it is called _______
#2 - Electronic Computing
1. Completed in 1944, it was one of the largest electro-mechanical computers ever built:
A. the Harvard Mark I
2. The electrically-controlled mechanical switches used in early computers were called ___
A. mechanical relays
3. You can think of a relay like a water faucet. The control wire is like the ___
A. faucet handle
4. A good relay in the 1940’s might be able to flick back and forth ___
A. fifty times in a second
5. For the Harvard Mark I, complex operations, like a trigonometric function, could take ___
A. over a minute
6. On average, one faulty relay on the Harvard Mark I would need replacing every ___
A. day
7. What type of "bug" was pulled from the Harvard Mark II in September 1947?
A. a moth
8. Who said, "When anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."?
A. Grace Hopper
9. In 1904, English physicist John Ambrose Fleming developed the first ___
A. vacuum tube
10. An electronic component that permits the one-way flow of current is called ___
A. a diode
11. In 1906, what did Lee de Forest add to the Fleming valve?
A. a third “control” electrode
12. The first large-scale use of vacuum tubes for computing was ___
A. the Colossus Mark 1
13. Who built an electro-mechanical machine, called the Bombe, at Bletchley Park in the UK?
A. Alan Turing
14. How was programming done on the Colossus Mark 1?
A. by plugging wires into plugboards
15. In 1947, what radical new electronic switch was built by Bell Laboratory scientists?
A. the transistor
16. A material that can sometimes conduct electricity and other times resist it is called ___
A. a semiconductor
3. What is the branch of mathematics that deals with true and false values? ________________
6. A NOT takes a single Boolean value, either true or false, and ________________
9. For the AND Boolean operation, the output is only true if ________________
10. Two transistors connected in series, with two inputs and one output, act like ____________
11. The only time this statement is false is if both inputs are false: ________________
12. Which Boolean operator is built from two transistors in parallel? ________________
13. Which logic gate is commonly represented by a "triangle with a dot"? ________________
14. Which logic gate is commonly represented by a "Letter D" symbol? ________________
16. When we use symbols for logic gates, rather than transistors, we are moving up _________
2. Which number system has ten possible values, 0 through 9, for a single digit? ____________
7. For 8-bit numbers, the lowest value is 0 and highest value is ______________
9. The metric prefix for a million is mega (M). What is the prefix for a billion? ______________
10. Numbers that are not whole numbers, like 12.7 and 3.14, are called ________________
11. In a 32-bit floating-point number, what is the first bit is used for? ________________
12. Which 7-bit code, invented in 1963, was developed to represent characters? ___________
13. The ability of computer systems to universally exchange information is called ____________
14. What was the major limitation of the 7-bit ASCII system? ____________________________
15. ASCII was expanded to 8 bits, allowing codes 128-255 to be used for ________________
16. What encoding scheme, devised in 1992, included many languages? ___________________