SWE Culture/History
Location of Amazon's HQ2
Crystal City, Arlington, VA
Which company originally created the React JS framework before making it open-source?
Facebook/Meta
Python and JavaScript are ____-typed languages.
Dynamically, Weakly
Name a Python web-scraping framework.
Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, URLlib, Selenium, Requests
Name 5 Apple products
Macbook Air/Pro, Mac, iPhone, Airpods, Apple Watch
Comedy TV series on HBO that showcases tech startup culture (Starring Thomas Middleditch, TJ Miller, Kumail Nanjiani).
Silicon Valley
Java and C++ are _____-typed languages.
Statically, Strongly
Name 4 popular open-source frameworks for Web Development
AngularJS, React, Node.js, Django, Ruby on Rails, Spring Boot, Vue, React, Bootstrap
Name 3 cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, DAO, DogeCoin
Streaming-Service company that was the first big corporation to migrate fully to the cloud (via AWS).
Netflix
Name 3 companies that survived the Dotcom Bubble of 1995.
Amazon, eBay, Oracle, IBM, Adobe, Intuit, Apple
Business-oriented programming language developed in 1959 that is still used in production by companies like JP Morgan Chase, FedEx, MetLife, Kroger.
COBOL
Name 3 popular open-source frameworks for Data Science/Analysis
Apache Spark, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Keras, Pandas, Numpy, PyTorch
Name 4 AWS Services
EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB
English mathematician and computer scientist from WW2 whose last name is used to describe programming languages as "____-Complete".
Alan Turing
Name 3 tech companies that IPO'd in the past 2 years
Palantir, Snowflake, Udemy, Asana, Robinhood, DoorDash, Airbnb, Wish
Name 3 functional programming languages.
Haskell, Scala, OCaml, Erlang, Kotlin, Clojure, Racket
Name 2 RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) that implement SQL.
MySQL, PostgresSQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle
Pseudonym for mysterious inventor of Bitcoin algorithm who owns roughly 1 Million Bitcoin (about $47B).
Satoshi Nakamoto
NYC Fin-Tech company founded in 1981 that charges $24,000/year in subscription fees for their flagship product.
Bloomberg
Name 2 educational programming languages
Logo (Terrapin Logo), Scratch, NetLogo, PASCAL
Cluster-computing framework developed at UC Berkeley that uses RDDs to generalize Google's Map-Reduce paradigm for processing Big Data.
Apache Spark
Town in Loudoun County, Virginia with many data centers that handles >70% of the world's internet traffic.
Ashburn