CS 008 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Grace Hopper, Software Bug, Embedded System
7 Aug 2018
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Anything in the notes is fair game! Don"t need to know specific time frame of people; but know what they did! Charles badwidge - father of the computer - analytical engine if it was the first computer to work - too complicated to build - but first. Alan turing - breaking natzi codes - artificial intelligence - created a test to see if a machine is thinking or not. Grace hopper - computer bug - help make computer languages more accessible - compiler (convert higher language to computer level language) A list of instructions (cpu) that tells the computer what to do. Most of this section is on the test. Don"t need to know the specifics (i. e. ascii code for h) Data represented by these bits bytes different measurements. How many bits are in an ascii character 8!!!!! (book is wrong) Don"t need to know mechanics of how numbers are represented. Whole numbers are converted/stored to equivalent binary value.
