Acronyms
This language, consisting of many different tags representing types of elements, is the basic building block of webpages.
What is Hypertext Markup Language?
This command fetches and downloads content from a remote repository to your local repository. Also something you might do to open a door.
What is git pull?
You use this command when you want to make a new database.
What is CREATE DATABASE?
Hissssss...This language shares a name with a type of non-venemous, constricting snake.
What is Python?
Founded on April Fool's Day in 1976, this company that shares its name with a fruit released its own programming language called Swift in 2010.
This component of frontend development allows you to add styling to web pages.
What is Cascading Style Sheets?
This command captures a "snapshot" of changes representing a version of a project. Also something you might do "to the bit."
What is git commit?
You use this command when you want to make a new table.
What is CREATE TABLE?
Part octupus, part cat, this hybrid creature can be seen on this version control platform.
What is Github?
This IDE that many of you use celebrated its 10th birthday this past April.
What is VS Code?
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?
This command transfers commits from your local repository to a remote repository. Also a song by Matchbox Twenty.
What is git push?
You use this command to add a row of data into a table.
What is INSERT INTO?
Like Tufts, this programming language's logo features an elephant.
What is PHP?
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?
This language is used for adding, removing, accessing, and manipulating data in a database.
What is Structured Query Language?
This command creates a local copy of an existing repository by downloading it to your machine. Also a genetically identical copy of an animal or plant.
What is git clone?
You use this command when you are looking to retrieve data from a database; it might be used with criteria such as matching a value or being within a certain range.
What is SELECT?
The logo for this open source relational database management system features a dolphin named Sakila.
What is MySQL?
Ada Lovelace is credited with creating the first of these in the 1840s, to calculate Bernoulli numbers.
What is a computer program?
This language often represents the "P" in a LAMP stack. Hint: it's a recursive acronym.
What is PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor?
This command creates a copy of a repository separate from the original. Also a utensil.
What is git fork?
You use this command to change data in a database.
What is UPDATE?
A sea lion can be seen in the logo for this fork of MySQL.
Creeper, created in 1971, tested the ability of a program to be self-replicating and is often regarded as the first of these, which can be harmful to your computer; the same word refers to something that can make you sick.
What is a virus?