Acronyms
This language, consisting of many different tags representing types of elements, is the basic building block of webpages.
What is Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)?
ARPANET, a packet switching computer network developed in the 1960s was a precursor to this service/infrastructure that we use everyday to access information and stay connected to each other.
What is the internet?
Python, C++, and JavaScript are examples of these: (what we use to give instructions to computers)
What are programming languages?
Hissssss...This language shares a name with a type of non-venemous, constricting snake.
Services like Chat-GPT and Claude are examples of this kind of model that understands and generates text.
What is an LLM?
This component of frontend development allows you to add styling to web pages.
What is Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)?
This device that used to be used to send electrical signals to represent characters pre-dated telephones and, later, computer networks.
What is the telegraph?
This special hardware + software setup listens for requests and responds with files, code, etc. Also what you might call someone who brings out your food at a restaurant.
What is a server?
Thar she blows! A whale is the mascot for this popular containerization platform.
What is Docker?
This is one of the simplest, classic machine learning models that is used to predict a numeric output. It is an example of supervised learning. (hint: we made one in class using Python)
What is linear regression?
This alliterative name is essentially synonymous with "The Internet," and is featured in the beginning of many urls.
What is the World Wide Web (WWW)?
As the story goes, due to an error in sending a message, the first 3 letters sent over ARPANET technically spell out this acronym/phrase; something you might type if you find something really funny.
What is "LOL"
This refers to a collection of programming languages, libraries, and other reusable components to help make development easier and more streamlined. Also the name of a company that makes modular laptops.
What is a framework?
Like Tufts, this programming language's logo features an elephant.
What is PHP?
This subtype of AI (more specifically, deep learning) is becoming increasingly popular (and contentious!).
What is generative AI?
This language is used for adding, removing, accessing, and manipulating data in a database.
What is Structured Query Language (SQL)?
This protocol for communication over networks came into use in the 1980s and was meant to prevent data loss during transmission.
What is TCP/IP?
This collection of code and dependencies, packaged together, runs atop a runtime engine, such as the Docker Engine, which runs atop a host machine's operating system.
What is a container?
The logo for this open source relational database management system features a dolphin named Sakila.
What is MySQL?
You might have to do this to your data before training a model if it is unorganized, unbalanced, biased, etc. Also something you might do around the house.
What is clean?
This allows an application to access data/functionality from another application, operating system, server, etc. Hint: services like Spotify, Strava, and Google Maps have these.
What is an Application Programming Interface (API)?
Development on this operating system, featuring a penguin mascot, began in the early 1990s as a school project by Linus Torvalds.
What is Linux?
LAMP, MEAN, and MERN are examples of this, which refers to a collection of technologies used to create a website/application.
What is a tech stack?
Part octupus, part cat, this hybrid creature can be seen on this version control platform.
What is Github?
This "currency" is used to pay for access to AI services. Also something you might use at an arcade.
What is a token?