Hmmm …
Once again, it’s a Friday.
You’ve possibly noticed.
Once again, it’s a Friday: and once again, it’s payday.
And … ? Once again, the Payment card I’ve ordered — that allows me to pay my Council Tax, in cash, at a PayPoint outlet — still hasn’t arrived.
Understandably, I’m not happy.
If it hasn’t arrived by Monday, though?
I can put into Brentwood Council to start asking pointed questions.
~≈fl≈~
But let’s move on, shall we?
Yesterday’s Teaser saw Olga* putting in her answers: scoring five out of five in the process.
Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?
Q1) 8th April saw a team led — in part — by Grace Hopper, start deveoping the computer language calledCOBOL
.COBOL
is short for Common Business Oriented … what?
Q2) Development started in which year: 1958, 1959 or 1960?
Q3) Grace, herself was a computer scientist who held which military rank: Air Chief Commodore, Rear Admiral or Brigadier General?
Q4) Grace earned a nickname based on the title of a well known hymn: what WAS her nickname?
Q5) Like other computer languages, COBOL
is/was supposed be used on many different computers. In other words, it’s supposed to be what: portable, fixed or editable?
Q6) Like other such computer languages, COBOL
is ‘high-level’: and needs to be translated for the computer to use. This is called what: assembling, compiling or collating?
Q7) Grace provided us with the term ‘debugging’: the term describing the removal of glitches from a computer program. She coined the term, after researchers found a what, fried onto a valve: a moth, an ant or a spider?
Q8) Languages like COBOL
can be used to write computer programs. Such programs are also called what: software, hardware or firmware?
Q9) Those of us who grew up in the 1980s computer boom will be familiar with a computer language calledBASIC
. What did the B stand for, inBASIC
?
Q10) Finally … which modern day computer language was named after a type of coffee?
Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) IBM announced its System 360: on 7th April, 1964. The 360 was what: a mainframe, mini-computer or laptop?
Q2) 7th April, 1978, saw President Carter postpone US production of what: a nuclear powered submarine, a neutron bomb or an ICBM?
Q3) 7th April, 1969, is the usual date given for the birth of the Internet. File sharing over the ’Net can be done with FTP: or File Transfer … what?
Q4) 7th April, 1891, saw the birth of Danish businessman, Ole Kirk Christiansen: the man who founded which toy company?A4) Lego.
Q5) Finally … 7th April, 1986, saw Sir Clive Sinclair sell his computer business to Amstrad. Name any of the three ZX computers his company sold.
I’ll leave you with this thought …
“From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.”
Grace Hopper, December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992.
And this tune …
Have a nice day …
* Yeah, I HAD wondered what happened, Olga: it looks like Google’s eaten your answers … ! At ANY rate … ? I’ve got the appointment booked up for early May: the soonest they could organise it.
1 comment:
Hello! Back again! What a great trip! Got to meet another person I know through blogging! :)
1. language
2. 1959
3. Rear Admiral
4. Amazing Grace
5. portable
6. compiling
7. a moth
8. software
9. beginner's
10. Java or JavaScript
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