A Quiz On Turing Tarpit
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 130
In his 1982 article ''Epigrams on Programming'', computer scientist and professor Alan Perlis coined the phrase turing tarpit. A turing tarpit is any programming language. Take this quiz to discover what you know about programming and computers.
Questions and Answers
- 1.
What is not a feature of a turing tarpit?- A.
Functionally flexible
- B.
Difficult to learn
- C.
Little support for common tasks
- D.
Irreducible data
- 2.
The syntax component of a programming language refers to the?
- A.
Instruction
- B.
Code
- C.
Meaning
- D.
Form
- 3.
Which is a markup language?
- A.
Triff
- B.
Java
- C.
Python
- D.
XML
- 4.
What is a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations?
- A.
Semantics
- B.
Line
- C.
Algorithm
- D.
Code
- 5.
The technique for hiding complexity of computer systems is referred to as?
- A.
Machine learning
- B.
Output
- C.
Abstraction
- D.
Naturalization
- 6.
A shared boundary across which two or more separate components of a computer system exchange information is?
- A.
Cloud security
- B.
Network
- C.
Interface
- D.
Program
- 7.
What is the point of interaction between a computer and humans?
- A.
Networking
- B.
Computing
- C.
User interface
- D.
Programming
- 8.
What is a number of elements in a specific order, typically all of the same type?
- A.
Array
- B.
List
- C.
Tray
- D.
Link
- 9.
What is a linear collection of data elements of any type?
- A.
Code
- B.
Line
- C.
List
- D.
Array
- 10.
An aggregate of data structure is called a?
- A.
Triple
- B.
Program
- C.
Struct
- D.
Code
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