Programming Languages
A programming language commonly used to build websites and is often paired with HTML and CSS.
What is JavaScript?
Data structure that uses a "first in, first out" (FIFO) method for adding and removing elements.
What is a Queue?
A type of data structure that is often used to store a collection of key-value pairs, like a phone book or a dictionary.
What is a Hash Map?
A Northeastern CS course associated with course number CS 3000.
What is Algorithms and Data?
Capital of the United States
What is Washington, D.C.?
A programming language, named after an island, is used to build Android apps.
What is Java?
A sorting algorithm known for its simple approach and works by repeatedly swapping adjacent elements if they are in the wrong order.
What is Bubble Sort?
A Python library commonly used for data manipulation and analysis, often with structures like DataFrames.
What is pandas?
Name of the Northeastern mascot.
What is Paws?
Smallest planet in our solar system
What is Mercury?
A programming language used for web development, data analysis, and artificial intelligence.
What is Python?
A type of data structure that stores data in a hierarchical way, where each node points to a "parent" node and can have multiple "child" nodes.
What is a Tree?
A type of machine learning problem that involves predicting a category or label for each instance in a dataset, such as determining whether an email is spam or not.
What is Classification?
Khoury College professor, known as one of the best at Northeastern, has won multiple awards for their teaching and now teaches exclusively online.
Who is Professor John Rachlin?
Element on the periodic table has the chemical symbol K
What is Potassium?
A programming language known for its use in building games.
What is C++?
A searching algorithm that finds an item in a sorted list by repeatedly dividing the search interval in half.
What is Binary Search?
Describes the process of dividing a dataset into a "training" set to build the model and a "testing" set to evaluate the model's performance.
What is Train-Test Split?
A Northeastern dining hall that has earned a reputation for being the "worst" on campus.
What is Stetson East?
Largest continent on Earth by land area
What is Asia?
A programming language widely used in data analysis, particularly in academic and research settings.
What is R?
An algorithm used for finding the shortest path in a graph and is named after a Dutch computer scientist.
What is Dijkstra's Algorithm?
Name 3 evaluation metrics commonly used to assess the performance of a classification model.
What is F1 Score, accuracy, recall, precision?
The oldest Northeastern building(s) on campus.
What is Kerr Hall (1914) or Richards Hall (1938)?
Value of Pi to 5 decimal places
What is 3.14159?