CPSC 217 Midterm Exam Complete Questions With 100% Verified Answers

CPSC 217 Midterm Exam Complete Questions With 100% Verified Answers .A boxy device with a typewriter-like interface that stores and processes information. - ANSWERS-"Boring" Definition of a Computer .A device that contains computer programs or other data, and pursuant to computer programs (performs logic and control, and may perform any other function.) "Computer program" means data representing instructions that, when executed in a computer system, causes the computer system to preform a function. - ANSWERS-Criminal Code of Canada" Definition of a Computer .An electronic device that accepts information in digital or similar form and manipulates it for a result based on a sequence of instructions. Another possibility: 1. One who computes 2. A tool that receives, processes, and presents data. - ANSWERS-UCITA USA" Definition of a Computer : .A computer does not need to be electronic - it could be mechanical ,optical or even biological - digital isn't acurate either as it could be dna or quantum data so it is a .......... - ANSWERS-Tool .father of the computer -In 1991, a functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans for a digital programmable computer. - ANSWERS-Difference Engine (Charles Babbage) .- A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate ______________________. (~1822) - ANSWERS-polynomial functions ._________________________ - Mathematician and writer - Worked with Charles Babbage on computer difference engine -Maybe the first programmer (at least first evidence of) - Early philosophy of computer science (The effects of technology on people) - ANSWERS-Ada Lovelace .Modern Computers Integrated Circuits (1959) patent by Robert Noyce. Co-inventor of integrated circuit. - Considered founder of silicon valley, his company spawned _______________________-. - ANSWERS-Intel/AMD/National Semi conductors .Modern Computers William Shockley was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for - ANSWERS-"their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect." .Major components of a modern desktop computer - ANSWERS-Central processing unit (CPU) Main memory Secondary storage devices Input and output devices .the part of the computer that actually runs programs - ANSWERS-•Central processing unit (CPU): .Where computer stores a program while program is running, and data used by the program Quick but disappears when off Can hold data for long periods of time Programs normally stored here and loaded to main memory when needed - ANSWERS-•Main memory: Random access (volatile) memory (RAM) Hard Drive (long term memory