Computer Programming Mid-term

Which would be classified as a mobile computing device?

Which is not an input device?

Which is the physical aspect of the computer?

Which processes data and controls the flow of data between the computer’s other units?

SRAM (Static RAM) is also referred to as

The number system used in computers is called

How many states do the electrical circuits on an IC (integrated circuit) have?

A single 0 or 1 in the binary code

Computer memory capacity and file size are measured in

The ________is high speed memory that stores frequently accessed instructions.

__________ holds data for all applications that are currently running on your computer, but only while the power is on.

Speeds are measured in MHz or _________ rate.

How many KB in 1 MB?

What type of memory does a flash drive use?

Which of the first generation computers was a secret military project during WWII used to calculate trajectory of artillery shells?

Who is called the first programmer due to writing a program based on the design of the Analytical Machine?

What computer was sold to US Census Bureau in 1951?

What sparked the second generation computers?

What sparked the beginning of third generation computers?

What made it possible to build the microcomputer (PC)?

What is the purpose of the ALU?

What type of code is directly understood by the CPU?

All of the following were developed in the 1990’s except:

Which category of programming languages has the most abstraction from the hardware?

Who wrote the first computer program?

A set of gears similar to a clock that only performed addition

Cylindrical wheel with movable carriage that can add, subtract, multiply, divide, square roots

A machine that was never built that was to produce table of numbers used by ships’ navigators.

A machine that was to perform variety of calculations by following a set of instructions (or program) on punched cards. It was never built but was used as a model for modern computer.

Machine create for US Census that had holes representing information to be tabulated were punched in cards

Mechanical telephone replay switches to store information and accepted data on punch cards.

Establishes penalties for aggravated identity theft

Requires federal agencies to develop, document and implement an agency-wide program to provide information security.

Addresses data collection by credit, insurance and employment agencies

Restricts the way in which personal data can be used by federal agencies

Requires government authorities have a subpoena, summons or search warrant to access an individual’s financial records

Makes it a crime to access electronic data without authorization

Requires federal government agencies to make certain agency information available for public inspection

Requires commercial websites that collect personal information from children under the age of 13 to obtain parental consent.

Gives Americans the freedom to use any type of encryption to protect their confidential information.

Gives law enforcement the ability to monitor individual’s email and web activity

The science that studies safe work environments.

Power & paper waste

Issues with computers in the workplace

identity theft

Protects against copyright infringement

Illegal copies being distributed

Program or series of instruction that can replicate without the user’s knowledge

Program or series of instruction that appears as something else

Program that is able to reproduce itself over a network

Install on computers to detect and remove code before it can replicated or damage data

Illegal act to gain access to large computer systems to perform acts of vandalism.

Act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be a legitimate business in an attempt to trick the user into revealing personal information that could be used for crimes like identity theft

Do not access, upload, download, or distribute inappropriate materials, Use appropriate language, Do not access another’s account, do not reveal personal information

English-language statements that describe the processing steps of a program in paragraph form

What indicates the flow of logic in a flowchart?

Check expected input, unexpected input, boundaries, null input.

A list of steps to solve a problem.

Identify the problem, design the solution, write the program, test the program, document and maintain the program.

The type of error that occurs when the programmer does not follow the rules of the programming language.

When running a program to average a list of numbers, the programmer notices that the average is not correct. This is an example of what type of error?

What is most frequently used design in the programming process?

Breaking down a problem into smaller sub-problems

The parts of identifying the problem.

Terminator (Start/ Stop) flowchart shape

Process flowchart shape

Input/Output flowchart shape

Decision flowchart shape

Errors that occur while your program runs.

When you want a variable, like a counter, to hold its value, it should be declared as.

Which type of variable that once declared cannot be changed by the program?

Another name of a syntax error.