Git basics
Allow you to develop features, fix bugs, or safely experiment with new ideas in a contained area of your repository.
What is a git branch?
Name the two most popular JavaScript frameworks.
React, AngularJS
Tech. company that designed the first CPU.
What is Intel?
In an ideal world this "chunk" of code should be responsible for only ONE task.
What is a function?
Hedge fund that pays SWE interns $144.23 / hour with $10,000 sign on bonus.
What is Arrowstreet Capital?
The command "git push" pushes your code to the ______ __________.
What is the lightweight, intuitive data format used to send data between application servers and web pages (and used heavily in JavaScript).
JSON
Name 5 co-founders of any of the FAANG companies.
Google: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin
Apple: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak
Netflix: Reed Hastings
Amazon: Jeff Bezos
"Later equals never."
What is LeBlanc's Law?
What town in California is the heart of Silicon Valley?
Palo Alto, CA
Command that temporarily shelves changes you've made to your working copy so you can work on something else, and then come back and re-apply them later on.
What is "git stash"?
Name 4 object-oriented languages.
Java, C++, Ruby, Python, Perl, JavaScript, Scala, VisualBasic.NET
The 10,000 attendee Silicone Valley hackathon that takes place in the heart of San Francisco.
What is TechCrunch Disrupt?
A programmer style that makes it difficult to add new data structures.
What is procedural code?
Name 5 B2C (Business-to-Consumer) tech companies.
Command that undoes local changes to the state of your git repo.
What is "git reset"?
Which language is preferred by High-Frequency Trading firms to execute trades for its efficiency and granular access to memory?
C++
What is the name of the Silicon Valley tech startup accelerator that launched companies like Stripe, Airbnb, DoorDash, Coinbase, etc.?
YCombinator
Engineer and author who wrote the Agile Manifesto & Clean Code.
Who is Robert C. Martin?
The fear of not having your phone.
What is nomophobia?
When you git reset you go from the _______ area to the _______ directory.
What is staging & working?
Language enforces lots of memory safety at compile time and was deemed the “Most Loved Language” in StackOverflow’s Developer Survey for 4 years in a row?
Rust
Silicon Valley rapid blood-testing device startup on trial for fraud.
Theranos
Danish computer scientist who founded C++.
Who is Bjarne Stroustrup?
Names of the two engineers who founded Tesla motors.
Who is Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning?