CS101: Introduction to Computer
Science I: The History of Programming
Languages
The first high-level programming language was?___________created by
Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945 - ANSWER Plankalkül
The first commercially available language was? ___________, Developed in
1954 by a team led by John Backus at IBM. - ANSWER FORTRAN
recognized by some historians as the world's first published computer program.
- ANSWER Analytical Engine
In the __________, the first recognizably modern electrically powered
computers were created. - ANSWER 1940s
An early proposal for a high-level programming language was Plankalkül,
developed by - ANSWER Konrad Zuse
John Mauchly's ______________, proposed in 1949, was one of the first high-
level languages ever developed for an electronic computer. - ANSWER Short
Code
Unlike machine code, Short Code statements represented______________?in
an understandable form. However, the program had to be translated into
machine code every time it ran, making the process much slower than running
the equivalent machine code. - ANSWER mathematical expressions
In the early 1950s, Alick Glennie developed__________? possibly the first
compiled programming language, at the University of Manchester. - ANSWER
Autocode
, In 1954, a second iteration of the language, Autocode known as the? -
ANSWER Mark 1 Autocode
In 1954 Language_______________, was invented. It was the first widely used
high-level general-purpose programming language to have a functional
implementation, as opposed to just a design on paper. It is still a popular
language for high-performance computing and is used for programs that
benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers. - ANSWER
FORTRAN
Another early programming language was devised by Grace Hopper in the US,
called? - ANSWER FLOW-MATIC
FLOW-MATIC, was developed for the ___________________ at Remington
Rand during the period from 1955 until 1959. - ANSWER UNIVAC I
Flow-Matic was a major influence in the design of? - ANSWER COBOL
languages still in use today include - ANSWER LISP (1958) and COBOL
(1959)
Another milestone in the late 1950s was the publication, by a committee of
American and European computer scientists, of "a new language for
algorithms"; the?? - ANSWER ALGOL 60 Report
ALGOL 60 Report consolidated many ideas circulating at the time and featured
three key language innovations: - ANSWER 1.) nested block structure
2.) lexical scoping
3.) Backus-Naur form (BNF)
code sequences and associated declarations could be grouped into blocks
without having to be turned into separate, explicitly named procedures; -
ANSWER nested block structure
a block could have its own private variables, procedures and functions, invisible
to code outside that block, that is, information hiding. - ANSWER lexical
scoping
Science I: The History of Programming
Languages
The first high-level programming language was?___________created by
Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945 - ANSWER Plankalkül
The first commercially available language was? ___________, Developed in
1954 by a team led by John Backus at IBM. - ANSWER FORTRAN
recognized by some historians as the world's first published computer program.
- ANSWER Analytical Engine
In the __________, the first recognizably modern electrically powered
computers were created. - ANSWER 1940s
An early proposal for a high-level programming language was Plankalkül,
developed by - ANSWER Konrad Zuse
John Mauchly's ______________, proposed in 1949, was one of the first high-
level languages ever developed for an electronic computer. - ANSWER Short
Code
Unlike machine code, Short Code statements represented______________?in
an understandable form. However, the program had to be translated into
machine code every time it ran, making the process much slower than running
the equivalent machine code. - ANSWER mathematical expressions
In the early 1950s, Alick Glennie developed__________? possibly the first
compiled programming language, at the University of Manchester. - ANSWER
Autocode
, In 1954, a second iteration of the language, Autocode known as the? -
ANSWER Mark 1 Autocode
In 1954 Language_______________, was invented. It was the first widely used
high-level general-purpose programming language to have a functional
implementation, as opposed to just a design on paper. It is still a popular
language for high-performance computing and is used for programs that
benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers. - ANSWER
FORTRAN
Another early programming language was devised by Grace Hopper in the US,
called? - ANSWER FLOW-MATIC
FLOW-MATIC, was developed for the ___________________ at Remington
Rand during the period from 1955 until 1959. - ANSWER UNIVAC I
Flow-Matic was a major influence in the design of? - ANSWER COBOL
languages still in use today include - ANSWER LISP (1958) and COBOL
(1959)
Another milestone in the late 1950s was the publication, by a committee of
American and European computer scientists, of "a new language for
algorithms"; the?? - ANSWER ALGOL 60 Report
ALGOL 60 Report consolidated many ideas circulating at the time and featured
three key language innovations: - ANSWER 1.) nested block structure
2.) lexical scoping
3.) Backus-Naur form (BNF)
code sequences and associated declarations could be grouped into blocks
without having to be turned into separate, explicitly named procedures; -
ANSWER nested block structure
a block could have its own private variables, procedures and functions, invisible
to code outside that block, that is, information hiding. - ANSWER lexical
scoping
