CRASH COURSE COMPUTER SCIENCE*

*I would name it CRASH COURSE COMPUTER ENGINEERING instead

Episode #1 – Early Computing

1. The earliest recognized device for computing was the ______________.

2. Our first reference of the usage of the term computer is in a book from 1613 and computer referred to a ______________. But, as techonology improved by the late 1800s, the term started getting used to refer to devices.

3. __________________, often considered the world’s first programmer, wrote programs for the theoretical analytical engine.

4. _________________, often considered the father of computing, designed two important machines: the difference engine and the analytical engine. Neither machine was ever built.

5. The 1890 ________________ was expected to take 13 years to tabulate (which is an issue because these occur every 10 years). This forced the American government to ask __________________ to help the process by building a tabulating machine which helped complete the tabulating in 2.5 years and saved the government millions of dollars.

6. As demand for tabulating machines grew, Hollerith founded The Tabulating Machine Company which, 1924, would merge with other companies to become _________________ better known as ________________.

International Business Machines abacus Herman Hollerith

census job title Ada Lovelace

Charles Babbage IBM