♣ Due Date: Friday September 24, 2021 9:00 AM. This homework aims at giving you some experience with computer hardware and software. Please write your answers in a README.md file and push them all to HW/2/ folder of your repository on GitHub.
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What does ENIAC stand for?
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Why is everything represented by integers in computers?
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What is the name of the fastest part of the computer memory?
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What is the slowest storage device in computers (that is typically integrated with computers)?
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What is the smallest unit of information in computer science?
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(A) What is the closest programming language to machine code (i.e., binary code)?
(B) Does it need interpretation in order to become machine-comprehensible?
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(A) Name the oldest high-level programming language that is still in active daily use.
(B) Approximately how many decades is it old? ($\pm15$ years is acceptable answer. the decade it was created is also an acceptable answer)
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(A) Name a second-generation programming language.
(B) Which language-generation are Fortran, C, C++, MATLAB, Python, R?
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In what decades C, C++, and MATLAB/Python were created, respectively?
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Name an ancestor programming language of C.
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Name a programming language ancestor of C++.
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Name a programming language ancestor of MATLAB and a programming language ancestor of Python.
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What are the three common types of errors in computer programs? Provide an example for each category.
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Suppose you write a program that has memory leak. What type of programming error you dealing with?
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Extra credit: What are the three fundamental components of a Turing-complete language?
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Extra credit: How would you distinguish exponential behavior vs. power-law behavior (function) in a 2-dimensional plot?
Hint: Recall our discussion of the ENAIC project and the relative frequency of keywords such as “computer” in our programming.
