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100

This company provides hosting for software development and distributed version control familiar to computer programmers is known for its iconic Octocat (part cat, part octopus) logo.

What is Github?

100

Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle was paid in the "low seven figures" by the New York Times in January 2022 for what wildly popular daily game?

What is Wordle?

100

In the programming world, the acronym SaaS stands for "software as a" WHAT?

What is service?

100

If you were trying to download music circa 2000, you probably relied on this free P2P software program with a fruity name.

What is Limewire?

200

Term used for a piece of software, a particular kind of user interface, that guides a user through a series of well-defined steps to complete a task?

What is wizard?

200

The mobile app development company Niantic struck gold in 2016 with this smash-hit smartphone game that captured tens of millions of players within days of its release. The game became a global phenomenon with players largely playing outdoors.

What is Pokemon Go?

200

The three-letter initialism for the markup language that was first formally spec'd by the World Wide Web Consortium in 1998 and is designed with goals of simplicity, generality, and usability across the internet?

What is XML?
200

This was the spooky name of the first computer worm, created in 1971, that could be defeated by the first antivirus software (aptly named Reaper)?

What is Creeper?

300

This popular operating system, launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin.

What is Linux?
300

With revenue over $700 million in 2018 and more than 20 years in the education technology market, this is the name of the privately-held DC-based company which claims more than 17,000 schools and organizations in 100 countries as customers. The company's name is likely to remind you of something you'd find in a school.

What is Blackboard?

300

SQS is an AWS that makes it easy to keep messages between software and apps organized without having to worry about losing them. SQS stands for Simple ______ Service.

What is queue?

300

This is the name of the software framework developed and maintained by Microsoft that was first built in the late 1990s and continues to primarily run on Windows machines with the C# language.

What is .NET?

400

The programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia

What is Java?

400

An American company, founded by Olivier Pomel in 2010, that monitors cloud-scale applications through a SaaS-based data analytics platform, is Data____. Their logo being an animal seen in their purple logo playfully holding a chart.

What is dog?

400

This "A" word important to software developers comes from a transliteration of the Arabic "al-Khwarizmi," a native of the area now known as Uzbekistan?

What is algorithm? 

400

In 1979, Apple released its first spreadsheet computer program for the Apple II, called ____.

What is VisiCalc?

500

This is the name of the programming language maintained by Microsoft that is considered a "strict syntactical superset" of Javascript. The language was designed for developing large applications and it transcompiles into JavaScript.

What is TypeScript?

500

Jack Dorsey is most known for co-founding Twitter, but he is also CEO of another tech company. This is the name of his other company, most well-known for credit card readers?

What is Block?

500

Throughout the ‘90s and 2000s, some updated versions of Windows operating systems—for example, 98 and 11—had “SE” after them. SE was short for ____.

What is second edition?

500

Meant to make programming easy for beginners, this Microsoft legacy product is a third-generation event-driven programming language that was first released in 1991.

What is Visual Basic?

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