Section 9.1
Review Questions

The history of assembler programs

  1. Fill in the blanks with some of the terms below. No term is used more than once. Not all terms are used.
     TERMS:      assembler              source file             object file
                 compiler               assembly language       FORTRAN
                 opcode                 IBM 360                 Cpt. Grace Hopper
                 mnemonic               linker                  C
     
     
     ____________________  The first high-level programming language
     
     ____________________  "memory helping"
     
     ____________________  The short names of the machine instructions
     
     ____________________  The output of the assembler program
     
     ____________________  The world's first family of compatible computers
     
     ____________________  A program to translate high level code into machine code
     
     ____________________  The file that people write; the original program
     
     ____________________  A program to create machine language files
     
     ____________________  The person who worked on one of the first translators
answer...
___FORTRAN__________  The first high-level programming language

___mnemonic_________  "memory helping"

___opcode___________  The short names of the machine instructions

___object file______  The output of the assembler program

___IBM 360__________  The world's first family of compatible computers

___compiler_________  A program to translate high level code into machine code

___source file______  The file that people write; the original program

___assembler________  A program to create machine language files

__Cpt. Grace Hopper_ The person who worked on one of the first translators
  1. Know your dates! Fill in the blanks below with the year in which the breakthrough occurred. The lines are in order from oldest to newest.
     ___________   Cpt. Hopper described the first compiler
     
     ___________   FORTRAN compiler written and released
     
     ___________   IBM 360 series introduced
     
     ___________   Java was born
answer...
___1952____   Cpt. Hopper described the first compiler

___1957____   FORTRAN compiler written and released

___1965____   IBM 360 series introduced

___1989____   Java was born