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     Français (fr)

    Rechercher un cours  (Rechercher un cours)

      Mes cours  BUE2105-1 - BUSINESS ENGLISH - BD 

    SEMAINE 3 - A HISTORY OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES 

    EVALUATION 3 - A HISTORY OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

    Commencé le mardi 2 avril 2019, 20:59


    État Terminé
    Terminé le mardi 2 avril 2019, 21:12
    Temps mis 13 min 15 s
    Note 12,00 sur 20,00 (60%)


    Description
    READING COMPREHENSION
    The first computers were gigantic calculating machines and all they
    ever really did was “crunch numbers”: solve lengthy, difficult, or
    tedious mathematical problems.
    Today, computers work on a much wider variety of problems—but
    they are all still, essentially, calculations. Everything a computer
    does, from helping you to edit a photograph you've taken with a
    digital camera to displaying a web page, involves manipulating
    numbers in one way or another.
    Suppose you're looking at a digital photo you just taken in a paint
    or photo-editing program and you decide you want a mirror image
    of it (in other words, flip it from left to right). You probably know
    that the photo is made up of millions of individual pixels (coloured
    squares) arranged in a grid pattern. The computer stores each
    pixel as a number, so taking a digital photo is really like an instant,
    orderly exercise in painting by numbers! To flip a digital photo, the
    computer simply reverses the sequence of numbers so they run
    from right to left instead of left to right.
    Or suppose you want to make the photograph brighter. All you
    have to do is slide the little “brightness” icon. The computer then
    works through all the pixels, increasing the brightness value for
    each one by, say, 10 percent to make the entire image brighter.
    So, once again, the problem boils down to numbers and
    calculations. What makes a computer different from a calculator is
    that it can work all by itself. You just give it your instructions (called
    a program) and off it goes, performing a long and complex series
    of operations all by itself. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, if you
    wanted a home computer to do almost anything at all, you had to
    write your own little program to do it.
    For example, before you could write a letter on a computer, you
    had to write a program that would read the letters you typed on
    the keyboard, store them in the memory, and display them on the
    screen. Writing the program usually took more time than doing
    whatever it was that you had originally wanted to do (writing the
    letter). Pretty soon, people started selling programs like word
    processors to save you the need to write programs yourself.
    Today, most computer users buy, download, or share programs
    like Microsoft Word and Excel. Hardly anyone writes programs any
    more.
    Most people see their computers as tools that help them do jobs, 
    rather than complex electronic machines they have to pre-
    program—and that's just as well, because most of us have better
    things to do than computer programming.
    Adapted with permission from © Chris Woodford 2007, 2011
    Question 1 Fill in the gap with a single word from the text (2 points)
    Incorrect
    Instructions given to a computer is referred to as
    Note de 0,00 sur
    2,00 calculating

    Question 2 (1 point) In the passage, brighter means:


    Incorrect

    Note de 0,00 sur Veuillez choisir une réponse :


    1,00 1. more intelligent

    2. clearer

    La réponse correcte est : more intelligent

    Question 3 (1 point) The word "lengthy" is related to


    Correct

    Note de 1,00 sur Veuillez choisir une réponse :


    1,00 1. long

    2. language

    3. lenses

    La réponse correcte est : long

    Question 4 Decide whether this statement if TRUE or FALSE (1 point)


    Correct The tasks performed by computers are mainly about numbers.
    Note de 1,00 sur
    1,00
    Veuillez choisir une réponse :
    1. TRUE

    2. FALSE

    La réponse correcte est : TRUE


    Question 5 In the text, the phrase "boil down" means (1 point)
    Correct

    Note de 1,00 sur Veuillez choisir une réponse :


    1,00 1. summarize

    2. cool

    3. increase

    La réponse correcte est : summarize

    Question 6 Select the main difference between a computer and a calculator (2


    Correct point)
    Note de 2,00 sur
    2,00 Veuillez choisir une réponse :
    1. autonomy

    2. diversity

    3. fastness

    La réponse correcte est : autonomy

    Question 7 Select the right explanation of this sentence: "Hardly anyone writes
    Incorrect programs any more." (1 point)
    Note de 0,00 sur
    1,00 Veuillez choisir une réponse :
    1. People don't write computer programs nowadays

    2. People keep on writing program for their computers

    La réponse correcte est : People don't write computer programs


    nowadays


    Question 8 To which machine is the computer compared ? (1 point)
    Correct

    Note de 1,00 sur Veuillez choisir une réponse :


    1,00 1. a digital camera

    2. a computer

    3. a calculator

    4. keyboard

    La réponse correcte est : a calculator

    Question 9 With colours, we talk about (1 point)


    Correct

    Note de 1,00 sur Veuillez choisir une réponse :


    1,00 1. decibels

    2. pixels

    3. spells

    La réponse correcte est : pixels

    Description
    LISTENING

    Question 10 Among these two languages select the one that is easier to use (1
    Correct point)
    Note de 1,00 sur
    1,00 Veuillez choisir une réponse :
    1. Python

    2. C++

    La réponse correcte est : Python


    Question 11 Among these two languages select the one that is easier to use (1
    Correct point)
    Note de 1,00 sur
    1,00 Veuillez choisir une réponse :
    1. Java

    2. Java Script

    La réponse correcte est : Java Script

    Question 12 Choose the right answer (1 point)


    Correct If one is interesting in data science and machine learning, one
    Note de 1,00 sur should learn
    1,00

    Veuillez choisir une réponse :


    1. Python

    2. swift

    3. java script

    La réponse correcte est : Python

    Question 13 Choose the right answer (1 point)


    Correct Is it important to know a particular programming language?
    Note de 1,00 sur
    1,00
    Veuillez choisir une réponse :
    1. yes

    2. no

    La réponse correcte est : yes


    Question 14 What matters if one wants to get a job at GAFAM? (4 points)
    Incorrect

    Note de 0,00 sur Veuillez choisir au moins une réponse :


    4,00  1. what language one knows

    2. coding skills

    3. technology one uses

     4. data structure and algonomous knowledge

    5. problem solving ability

     6. experience

    Les réponses correctes sont : coding skills, data structure and


    algonomous knowledge, problem solving ability, experience

    Question 15 Where does one get experience to work at GAFAM (1 point)


    Correct

    Note de 1,00 sur Veuillez choisir une réponse :


    1,00 1. at GAFAM training centre

    2. at smaller companies

    3. at school

    4. through tutorial

    La réponse correcte est : at smaller companies

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