dai227 week 1

1) How was unique about Charles Babbage Analytical Engine, compared to his original Difference Engine?

A:
the analitical machine was developed to do many different task and it could also be programmable;
where as the difference engine was design to do only one task

2) What role did Ada Lovelace play in the development of the Analytical Engine?

A:
she was the person in charge of interpreting the analitical engine and she was called the first computer programmer

3) How was the ENIAC computer reprogrammed?

A:
was reprogram by people, meaning that people had to switch hundreds of cables and repluging them
into connecting two different parts of the machine.

4) Name an innovation that helped make programming faster post ENIAC (see ep. 2)

A:they used magnetic type for faster way to proses information. and created compueter languages


5) What is it about binary counting that makes it so well suited to computers?

A:
the binary system is based on only two numbers 1 and zero.
for engineers it was the simplest way to give something a task, it was either on or off

6) In what ways did UNIVAC influence the portrayal of computers in popular culture in the 1950s? Give an example. (see ep. 2)

A:
Desk set

7) Codebreaking required the automatic manipulation of symbols to unscramble messages during WWII.
What was the name of the rudimentary computer at Bletchley Park in England that unscrambled Nazi codes.

A:Colossus


8) Alan Turing who understood the implications of such machines later went on to describe them as_______ machines.

A:
Computer machines

GENERAL QUESTIONS

Write two paragraphs for each:

9) Describe when you first used computers and what types of tasks you performed on them.
A:
when I first used a computer was to get into the internet and listen to music,
I did not have any knowlege in how to use computers, so I did not have any other use for it.
I was somewhat intimidated by software in the computers, they had some many options and tools and I did not know how to use them.
later on I learn to do diffrent task with the computer and now I don't think I would be able do all the things tat I do without a computer.
from work to school, from school to enterteinment.

10) How restricted do you think computers are in terms of what they can do compared to how they are most often used?
A:
I don't think they are restricted to anything, in the hands of the rigt person
they can perform anbelievable tasks. nowadays the computers are mostly used for networking, entertainment,virtual worlds, tools.
computers are now used to do what humans used to do in person. they way we communicate today is widely done with computers. weither
is trhrough a loptop computer or a smartphone.