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What does SQL stand for?

A

Structured Query Language

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What does HTML stand for?

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HyperText Markup Language

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What does CSS stand for?

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Cascading Style Sheets

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The ___ language, when used, describes what you want to get, not how to do it.

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SQL

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Two different types of programming languages

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Imperative and Declarative.

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What programming language is declarative?

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SQL

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Name three programming languages that are imperative

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Java, C++, Python

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_____ is when you describe each action to take, to eventually create a result for yourself.

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Imperative

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____, contains text and tags. It is a markup language.

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HTML

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What is <ol>?</ol>

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It is an ordered list, so a list with numbers.

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What is ?

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It is an unordered list, so a list with bullets.

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What is Plankalkül?

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“Plan Calcalus”, a formal programming language/planning system that was never implemented

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What does Fortran stand for?

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Formula Translating System

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Who designed Fortran?

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Developed at IBM in the 1950s by John Backus

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What was the First high-level language designed?

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Plankalkül

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What was the First high-level language implemented?

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Fortran

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Which language had control structures similar to assembly language

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Fortran

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What does COBOL stand for?

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COmmon Business-Oriented Language

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Who designed COBOL?

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Developed by the U.S. Navy in 1959 and 1960 by a group headed by Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

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What was the focus of COBOL?

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  1. Focus on business applications
  2. Inventory or payroll
  3. Master file updated by transaction files: file I/O key
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What was an issue for COBOL?

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  1. Year 2000 (Y2K) issues

2. Required massive updating of old COBOL

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What language has a wide use in legacy code (old code still in use)?

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COBOL

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Who developed C?

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C developed in the early 1970s at AT&T Labs by Dennis Ritchie

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Which language has a close connection to UNIX?

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C

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Which language has a focus on system programming?
C/C++
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Which language has high-level constructs when desired and low-level constructs when efficiency is needed?
C/C++
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Who developed C++?
It was developed in the early 1980s at AT&T Labs by Bjarne Stroustrup
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What language would you use to interact with device drivers?
C
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Who developed Ada?
Developed in the 1970s for the U.S. military
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What language was used heavily by Defense Department, Transportation industry, Financial industry, Communications industry
Ada
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Which language has a speciality in Multiprocessing, Strong object-oriented, Safety and reliability
Ada
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Who developed JAVA?
Developed by Sun Microsystems Inc. in the early 1990s
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What was JAVA designed for?
1. Platform independence 2. Reliability 3. Security 4. Graphical user interfaces
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Which language has strong integration with web browsers
JAVA
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Which programming language can either be applications or applets?
Java
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What are Java Applets?
small programs that are accessed from the web and executed using Java Web Start
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Which language has portability as a key strength?
Java
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What is the Java bytecode interpreter used for?
it is used to translate to host machine
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Who developed Python?
Developed by Guido van Rossum in the early 1990s
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What language is open source?
Python
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Which language is developed for system administrator tasks and web interfaces
Python
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Which language has an interpreted language such that the source code is translated to object code when executed
Python
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Which language has relaxed syntax, easy to use, extensive libraries
Python
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Who developed C#?
Developed by Microsoft in 2000
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T/F? Is C# a Superset to C++
False, just a successor. C++ is a superset of C
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What language has a similar focus to Java in form and goals?
C#
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What language is integrated into the .NET framework
C#
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What is the .NET framework?
1. Microsoft support framework for many languages | 2. Large collection of code libraries and tools
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What is Garbage collection?
reclaiming memory for reuse
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Where are .NET languages compiled?
All .NET languages are compiled into Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL)
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What compiles the MSIL code?
MSIL code is compiled by a just-in-time (JIT) compiler, small program that produces platform-specific object code
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What are the .Net languages?
Ada, COBOL, C++, C#, and Visual Basic .NET
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What language asks questions about data in a database
SQL
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What language describes the formatting of webpages
HTML
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What language uses lightweight scripting language for active webpages?
JavaScript
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What language is specialized language designed for statistics and graphics?
R
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Who developed SQL?
Developed by IBM in 1986
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What language would you use to find find all names of vendors with whom we do more than $40,000 worth of business
SQL
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What programming contains text to be displayed and tags
HTML
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What language uses mostly angle brackets?
HTML
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What language is embedded in HTML and enables webpages to react to users?
JavaScript
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What is an Event Handler?
a function that responds to an event like mouse movement, button clicks, etc.

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