Data Structures & Algorithms
This data structure is like a stack of plates — the last thing you add is the first thing you take off (LIFO).
What is a Stack?
This is the name for a set of step-by-step instructions a computer follows to solve a problem.
What is an Algorithm?
This part of the computer is often called its "brain" and carries out instructions.
What is the CPU (Central Processing Unit)?
This tool tracks changes to code over time so teams can collaborate without overwriting each other's work.
What is Git (or GitHub, prefer Git).
This is the name for the worldwide system of connected networks that lets you browse websites and send email.
What is the internet?
This data structure is like a line at a store — first person in line is the first one served (FIFO).
What is a Queue?
This programming style organizes code around "objects" that hold both attributes and methods.
What is Object-Oriented Programming?
This type of computer memory is fast but temporary — it clears when you turn the power off.
What is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
This is writing small pieces of code to automatically check that your program's functions work correctly.
What is Unit Testing?
This term describes an error or flaw in a computer program.
What is a bug?
This term describes how much time or memory an algorithm needs.
What is Big-O Notation?
This word describes code that repeats a block of instructions until a condition is met.
What is a Loop?
This is the software that manages a computer's hardware and lets other programs run.
What is an Operating System?
This term describes notes written in plain language inside code to explain what it does, ignored by the computer when it runs.
What are comments?
This company, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975.
What is Microsoft?
This is the process of putting a list of items into order.
What is Sorting?
This term means catching and handling errors in code.
What is error handling (exception handling)?
This is the general name for a network of connected computers that can share data with each other, on a small or large scale.
What is a Network?
What is my favorite programming language?
This company, founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in a garage in 1976.
What is Apple?
This structure connects data using "nodes" that each point to the next one.
What is a Linked List?
List three of the fastest low-level compiled programming languages.
What are C, C++, and Rust?
What is the average price of RAM as of right now?
What is between $350 and $400.
This word describes working in a small, organized team that plans work in short chunks called "sprints."
What is Agile (development)?
This woman is credited as one of the first computer programmers, writing notes about Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in the 1800s.
Who is Ada Lovelace?