Python - Test Yourself

⧫ Which of the following is NOT a programming language?

 a. Java
 b. C
 c. Kuntz 
 d. Ruby



⧫ Python is considered to be _______________


a. a database language 


b. a formula translation language 

c. an Internet language 

d. a business oriented language






⧫ During the 1990's, a major influence on programming languages was____________________

 a. consolidation, modules performance
 b. the Internet 
 c. fundamental paradigms
 d. formula translation



The three kinds or errors that can occur in a program are_______________

 a. algorithms, debugging, iterations
 b. syntax, runtime, semantic 
 c. looping, spelling, conditional
 d. scripting, command line, interpreter


Portability means the program is written in small chunks of code.

 True
 False 





A program is a sequence of instructions that specifies how to perform a computation.

 True 
 False







The C language was developed at Bell Labs with the objective of being the first object oriented language

True 
False






Perl, Python, and PHP are all compiled languages

True
False 



The COBOL language was designed to solve business problems and was adapted to processing business transactions

True 
False



Fortran language was designed to process business transactions

True
False





The concept of a computer ‘bug’ was first attributed to ______ who found a moth stuck in a relay that caused a failure in a computer at Harvard University. The term ‘debugging’ has since come to mean correcting errors in a computer or computer program.




 a. Grace Murray Hopper 
 b. John von Neumann
 c. Charles Babbage



 d. Konrad Zuse


The BASIC language was developed by John G. Kemeny at which school:

 a. Harvard University
 b. Stanford University
 c. Dartmouth College 
 d. Carnegie Mellon University






A popular computer language developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at Bell Labs in the 70's is:

 a. APL
 b. Basic
 c. C 
 d. PL/1





Which of the following is NOT one of the computer languages developed in the 1950’s

 a. COBOL
 b. Fortran
 c. BASIC (Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
 d. LISP



















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