<p>View Park Preparatory High School Name: Geometry Due Date: 01/19/10 Mr. Slayton Period 6</p><p>Instructions: Type your answers on this sheet. Email this portion of your project to th Mr. Slayton at T [email protected] no later than Tuesday, January 18 . Late papers will be deducted 10% each day. You must show Mr. Slayton your three programs, fully functional, no later than 6th period on Wednesday, January 19th. Late programs will be deducted 10% each day.</p><p>Questions:</p><p>1. What is a slide rule? What are its purposes? How does it work?</p><p>2. Who invented the computer? What was its purpose?</p><p>3. When was the first computer designed? What was its name?</p><p>4. What did the inventor use before the invention of the computer?</p><p>5. What is binary code? What was its predecessor?</p><p>6. What does UNIVAC stand for? What was the significance of UNIVAC?</p><p>7. Who paid for UNIVAC? What was it designed to do?</p><p>8. In 1956 the transistor was invented by two Nobel Prize Laureates. What were their names and how did it revolutionize computer.</p><p>9. Before 1948, the Census Bureau had a problem. What was it? Who did they call on for assistance?</p><p>10. What is a high-level language? Give some examples.</p><p>11. For a programmer, time and cost are great factors. What could a programmer do to avert expenses?</p><p>12. How could programming be used in research? What would its application be in medicine?</p><p>13. Why is it a good idea for a person with an interest in computer programming to start off looking at game programs? 14. Spacewar was the first computer game. Who invented it? Describe the game.</p><p>15. One of the first home computers was the Apple I. What day was it released in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak? Why do you think it was released on that date?</p><p>16. Give several examples of how the computer is used in real life situations.</p><p>17. Described what you did to make writing your program easier. Describe how a programmer may use the same technique in commercial programming.</p><p>18. How are math and computer science related?</p><p>7</p>