ACM-W Officers!
Predict the Output! (Python)
Tandon Tales
Code to Know
HER-story!
Name that Algorithm
100
The number of cats Sanjida (ACM-W's secretary) has.
What is 3
100
The output when n = 10
What is "blue"
100
The year that Polytechnic Institute officially became coed
When is 1958
Fun fact: Despite this, lots of women attended and graduated from Poly during WWII
100
The value of 8! (8 factorial)
What is 40320
100
The only woman to win two Nobel Prizes
Who is Marie Curie
She won nobel prizes in Physics and Chemistry
100
The algorithm that calls itself into subproblems in order to solve the original problem
What is recursion
200
The city outside of the US that Aditi (ACM-W's outreach chair) lived in
What is Dubai
200
The output of this code when n = 10
What is "BD"
200
NYU's official mascot
What is the bobcat
200
The sum of all EVEN numbers that are less than 99
What is 2450
200
The woman considered the first computer programmer
Who is Ada Lovelace
200
The algorithm that efficiently searches through sorted items by repeatedly dividing itself
What is Binary Search Algorithm
300
The brand of shoes Nisha (ACM-W's Chair) wears every day
What are Dr. Martens
300
The output of this code when n = 12
What is 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60
300
The year of Polytechnic University's official merger with NYU
When is 2014
300
The square of the sum of EVEN NUMBERS ((1+2+3+...+N)^2) minus the sum of the squares of ODD NUMBERS (1^2+2^2+3^2+...+N^2) of 1 to 100 (inclusive)
What is 6335850
300
The woman who invented the compiler and has a guided-missile destroyer named after her
Who is Admiral Grace Hopper
300
The search algorithm that is referred to as an improved selection sort
What is Heapsort
400
The body part Jenesis (ACM-W media lead) injured this summer
What is tooth
400
The output of this code when n = 10
What is 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55
400
The year the first women, Anna Erdmann, received a Bachelor's degree from Polytechnic Institute
When is 1907
400
The integer value of the roman numeral CMLXXIV
Note: a numeral can only be placed in front of the two numerals that are closest to it in the Roman numeral system (ex. I can only be placed before V or X).
What is 974
400
The cryptanalyst instrumental in breaking codes for the Allies in WWII (also played by Kiera Knightley in the Imitation Game...)
Who is Joan Clarke
400
The algorithm that searches through a tree by starting at the root and exploring the neighbor nodes before moving on to the next level of nodes
What is Breadth-First Search
500
The six styles of dance Christina (ACM-W's Media Lead) grew dancing and performed internationally
What are Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Lyrical, and Contemporary
500
The output when lst = ['How', 'are', 'you?'] and n=3
What is H, HH, a, aa, y, yy
500
Jasper Kane (Polytechnic '28) was famous for...
What is creating the process that Pfizer used to mass produce penicillin
500
The largest prime factor of 420
What is 7
500
This engineer helped design and implement the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet
Who is Radia Perlman
500
The algorithm that computes the shortest paths from a single source vertex to all of the other vertices in a weighted digraph thats slower than Dijkstra's algorithm
What is Bellman-Ford algorithm