Know about programming history attempt 10 questions.

Question 1

The first programming codes were developed in?

Answer:

1940's

Explanation:

The first programming language for a computer was Plankalkül, developed by Konrad Zuse for the Z3 between 1943 and 1945. However, it was not implemented until 1998.

Question 2

FORTRAN stands for?

Answer:

FORmula TRANslator

Explanation:

Acronym for formula translator, FORTRAN is the oldest high-level programming language. Designed by John Backus for IBM in the late 1950s.

Question 3

HTML stands for?

Answer:

HyperText Markup Language

Explanation:

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. (Hypertext Markup Language) HTML is the language used to create Web pages for display in Web Browsers.

Question 4

Sun Microsystems in 1995 released ________?

Answer:

Java

Explanation:

Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which has since been acquired by Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform.

Question 5

The language most commonly used to develop WebPages is?

Answer:

HTML

Explanation:

HTML is one of the most common programming languages used to create and design websites and pages.

Question 6

All computers execute ________ programs?

Answer:

Machine language programs

Question 7

Which of the following relates to machine language?

Answer:

All options are correct

Question 8

A computer program consists of _____________?

Answer:

Algorithms written in computer's language

Explanation:

An algorithm is an unambiguous set of rules/ a series of steps to solve a problem. It is written in a natural language and can be implemented in almost any programming language.

Question 9

Which of the following languages was developed first?

Answer:

COBOL

Question 10

Which programming language was used for writing the popular operating system UNIX?

Answer:

C

Explanation:

UNIX was one of the first operating systems to be written in a high-level programming language, namely C.