CMSC 100 Midterm: CMSC100Exam1StudyGuide

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: CMSC 100
• Professor: Deepa Anagondahalli

Document Summary

The first computer is generally considered to be babbage"s computational machine in the late 1870s. It was in theory the world"s first programmable computer, but. Ada lovelace was the first computer programmer! For this, babbage is known as the father of the computer . By 1938, the u. s army had developed the first electromechanical computer, the torpedo data computer which used trigonometry to solve the problem of firing a torpedo at a moving target. The z3, built by germany in 1941, was the first fully automatic , programmable digital computer. The next innovation was the vacuum tube, which enabled the transition from electromechanical to a purely digital system. The first computer with a large number of valves was the colossus with 1,500 vacuum tubes in the mark 1. The mark 2 was 5 times faster and simpler to operate due to having. The first u. s built digital computer was eniac.