C++/Java Syntax
Tech History / Companies
Programming Meme
Identify the Language
Video Games
100

In both Java and C++, every statement must end with this punctuation mark.

What is a semicolon (;)?

100

The year the first iPhone was released.

When is 2007?

100

It's not a bug, it's ____

What is "a feature"?

100

The phrase "Write Once, Run Anywhere" is associated with this programming language.

What is Java?

100

This sandbox game, released in 2011, became the best-selling video game of all time.

What is Minecraft?

200

This keyword is used to declare a variable that cannot be changed once assigned.

What is "final" (Java) or "const" (C++)?

200

This company's original name was "Backrub" before changing to its current name in 1998.

What is Google?

200

This phrase describes when code works but you don't know why: "If it ain't broke, ____"

What is "don't fix it"?

200

The only programming language that runs natively in all web browsers.

What is JavaScript?

200

This game was taken down in 2014 by its own developer for being too addictive and causing anger for its players.

What is Flappy Bird?


300

In both Java and C++, this keyword refers to the current object inside a class method.

What is "this"?

300

This company, now owned by Microsoft, created the first popular web browser.

What is Netscape?

300

This term refers to code so unreadable it seems like it was written by multiple developers fighting each other.

What is spaghetti code?

300

Bjarne Stroustrup created C++ and originally called it "____"

What is "C with Classes"?

300

"Pokemon" is short for this two-word phrase.

What is Pocket Monsters?

400

This special method is automatically called when an object is created.

What is constructor?

400

IBM's Deep Blue made history in 1997 by defeating this world chess champion.

Who is Garry Kasparov?

400

"There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary ___"

What is "and those who don't"?

400

JavaScript has nothing to do with Java; it was originally called this before being renamed for marketing reasons.

What is LiveScript/Mocha?

400

"Grand Theft Auto V" generated $1 billion in revenue after being released for this long.

What is 3 days?

500

Unlike Java, C++ doesn't has this built-in feature so developers have to explicitly allocating and deallocating memory.

What is garbage collection?

500

The first computer bug was literally a bug - this insect was found in the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.

What is a moth?

500

"There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and ____"

What is "off-by-one errors"?

500

This systems programming language was voted "most loved" in Stack Overflow surveys for 8 consecutive years.

What is Rust?

500

The term "AAA" in game development refers to games with budgets typically exceeding this many million dollars.

What is $50M? (Accept: $50-100M)

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