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founded Microsoft, which released Altair BASIC, the first programming language for personal computers.:Bill Gates and Paul Allen
found the first computer bug in 1947, and invented the concept of a compiler in 1952.:Grace Murray Hopper
led a team at IBM that developed FORTRAN and its compiler in 1957.:John Backus
developed C++ programming language, and published the reference guide in 1987.:Bjarne Stroustrup
released the Python programming language.:Guido van Rossum
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Using the drop-down menus, correctly complete the sentences.A(n) ✔ computer programassembly languageproblemstatement is a set of step-by-step instructions that tell a computer exactly what to do.

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is a set of step-by-step instructions that tell a computer exactly what to do.:computer program
;:problem
problem that can be solved by a computer program.:logic
.:programmer
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Choose the correct statements about computer-programming languages. Choose all that apply.

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Computer-programming languages are like English, French, and German in that they follow set rules and patterns.
B
Computers understand binary machine language.
C
Python translates programming languages into assembly language.
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Programming languages like BASIC were developed for the convenience of programmers.
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Using the drop-down menus, correctly complete the sentences about early programming languages from the 1940 to the 1960s.Some of first programming languages were FORTRAN, LISP, BASIC, and COBOL.FORTRAN✔ BASICCOBOLLISP was developed at Dartmouth College for students learning programming.

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was developed at Dartmouth College for students learning programming.:BASIC
was for the first high:FORTRAN
was developed for use in artificial intelligence research.:LISP
was designed for business use.:COBOL
was designed to help programmers when programming was done by the moving of switches on computer panels.:Assembly language
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Identify the characteristics of object-oriented programming. Choose all that apply.

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It is an important innovation in programming languages in the 1970s and 1980s.
B
It is used to translate programs from low-level to high-level languages.
C
It is broken into parts known as objects that contain data and programs.
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It allows programmers to collaborate more effectively.
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Which of the following programming languages are object-oriented? Choose all that apply.

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Python programming language
B
C++ programming language
C
BASIC programming language
D
Java programming language
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Using the drop-down menus, correctly match the name of the person with the computer-programming innovation. In 1975, Guido van Rossum✔ Bill Gates and Paul Allen Bjarne Stroustrup founded Microsoft, which released Altair BASIC, the first programming language for personal computers.

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founded Microsoft, which released Altair BASIC, the first programming language for personal computers.:Bill Gates and Paul Allen
found the first computer bug in 1947, and invented the concept of a compiler in 1952.:Grace Murray Hopper
led a team at IBM that developed FORTRAN and its compiler in 1957.:John Backus
developed C++ programming language, and published the reference guide in 1987.:Bjarne Stroustrup
released the Python programming language.:Guido van Rossum
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Which of the following programming languages were initially developed to teach programming techniques to students? Choose all that apply.

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C++ programming language
B
Java programming language
C
BASIC programming language
D
Pascal programming language

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