Programmer Trivia

This computer programming language was introduced by Niklaus Wirth in late 1970. What is the name of the language that was named after a famous French mathematician?

PASCAL

Who created the Python programming language?

Guido van Rossum

Who was the child of a famous poet and English mathematician whom many historians consider the first programmer?

Ada Lovelace

This programming language was developed in 1963 at Dartmouth College, but really took hold with the home computer explosion of the late 1970s and early 1980s. One of the first versions for a home computer was written in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the founders of Microsoft.

BASIC

In the early 1970s Dennis M. Ritchie, an employee of AT&T, came up with which single letter computer programming language?

C

This computer language was developed at Bell Labs between 1969 and 1973 in large part to run on Unix. It became one of the most universally used languages of all time.

C

The word COBOL is an acronym for what?

COmmon Business Oriented Language

Visual Basic, a third generation language, was released in 1991 and declared legacy in 2008. Which corporation released this easy to learn language?

Microsoft

What was the original name for Java?

Oak

In 1983, this person was the first to offer a definition of the term 'computer virus'.

Fred Cohen

An American mathematician, who was also a Naval Rear Admiral, is credited with creating FLOW-MATIC, a programming language intended to read more like English than math. Who was this multi-talented person?

Grace Hopper

Computer scientist and programmer Yukihiro Matsumoto released this language in late 1995.

Ruby

Which company was behind the creation of Java?

Sun Microsystems

An Apple tool developer quietly wrote a new language designed to make it easy to create apps for all of the company's major devices. Apple introduced the language publicly in the summer of 2014 and emphasized how quickly it works. What is the name of this rapid programming tool?

Swift

A program that neither replicates or copies itself, but does damage or compromises the security of the computer. Typically it relies on someone emailing it to you, it does not email itself, it may arrive in the form of a joke program or software of some sort.

Trojan

QBasic was developed by which company?

Microsoft

What year was Java released?

1995

What year was JavaScript released?

1995

One of the earliest computer programming languages was introduced by IBM in 1957. The language was a group effort led by John Backhus. The aim of the language was to help with translating mathematical formulas into machine understandable code. What is the name of this scientific language?

FORTRAN

What is the name of the inventor (or father) of Java?

James Gosling

This language was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems beginning in 1991 and was intended for interactive television.

Java

Which programming language is associated with the saying, "Write Once, Run Anywhere"?

Java

Java can run on any computer platform that has a ...

Java Virtual Machine

In 1988 one of the most common viruses was unleashed. Activated every Friday the 13th, the virus affects both .EXE and .COM files and deletes any programs run on that day. What is the name of that virus?

Jerusalem

What is the name of the programming language, created in 1958, popularly used in artificial intelligence and which uses lists as a main data structure?

LISP

Who is the creator and primary maintainer of Perl?

Larry Wall

Who developed Linux?

Linus Torvalds

Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum started implementing this language in late 1989.

Python