Midterm 2.0

Question 1

Timeline of “new media”

Answer 1

1st in early 1900s, took off in 1980s, peaked in 2000s

Question 2

Pictogram big innovation

Answer 2

Standardize “language”, can be repeated

Question 3

Ideogram big innovation

Answer 3

Bring in abstract

Question 4

What did printing press lead to?

Answer 4

Mass Media

Question 5

CPU definition

Answer 5

Electronic circuitry that carries out instructions of program

Question 6

GPGPU

Answer 6

General purpose on GPU- non-graphics related

Question 7

What does HDMI transfer?

Answer 7

Video and audio

Question 8

3 rules of hardware

Answer 8

smaller, simpler, faster/more efficient

Question 9

Code

Answer 9

Set of symbols that can be interpreted by a computer

Question 10

Programming language

Answer 10

A system for encoding, naming, and organizing algorithms for reuse and reapplication

Question 11

Java

Answer 11

Looks like C, runs on virtual machine/browser

Question 12

JavaScript

Answer 12

Browser only

Question 13

PHP

Answer 13

Widely used open-source general purpose scripting language especially suited for web development and can be developed into HTML

Question 14

C

Answer 14

Simple, UNIX

Question 15

C++

Answer 15

Object-oriented version of C

Question 16

Objective-C

Answer 16

General purpose, object oriented, adds messaging to C

Question 17

What is used by Apple for OS X and iOS?

Answer 17

Objective C

Question 18

Which languages are object oriented?

Answer 18

Java, C++, Objective-C

Question 19

When did ARPANet go live?

Answer 19

1969

Question 20

URL

Answer 20

reference to resource on internet

Question 21

HTTP

Answer 21

Web browsers and servers use to communicate over internet

Question 22

TCP

Answer 22

Standard defines how to establish and maintain network conversation via which application programs can exchange data

Question 23

IP

Answer 23

Defines how computers send packets of data to each other

Question 24

Metacognition

Answer 24

Learning about learning

Question 25

Digital media

Answer 25

Binary info coded for computers

Question 26

USB

Answer 26

Universal serial bus

Question 27

Programming

Answer 27

Taking large, impossible seeming tasks and turning into smaller possible components for a computer to do

Question 28

Code

Answer 28

Written in a language, run (letter by letter) through a compiler making instructions for computer for code

Question 29

Object-oriented programming

Answer 29

filing system for code

Question 30

Standard library

Answer 30

Set of premade software to reuse and reapply

Question 31

IDE

Answer 31

Consolidates basic tools

Question 32

SDK

Answer 32

Use to make an app

Question 33

To connect computers without a router you’d need how many cables vs with?

Answer 33

45; 10

Question 34

Early newspapers were first form of

Answer 34

Advertising, propaganda, mass communication

Question 35

Printing press improved what

Answer 35

Improved speed, cost, accuracy

Question 36

What was the advantages of papyrus over stone?

Answer 36

Lighter, higher info density, faster data entry

Question 37

Terms used to describe “digital media”

Answer 37

Digital, emerging, media

Question 38

When did “digital media” rapidly accelerate as a term?

Answer 38

1990s

Question 39

3 Pillars of the internet

Answer 39

URL, HTTP, HTML