Carleton
Faculty of Engineering
Software/Systems Engineering
Coding Knowledge
Spot the Syntax Error
100

The amount of ECOR courses taken during first year.

What is 8?

100

The main engineering building on Carleton campus.

What is the Mackenzie building?

100

The programming language taught in ECOR1041.

What is Python?

100

Python control statements include if, else and...

What is "elif"?

100

Python:

printf("Hello World!");

What is print("Hello World!");

200

The oldest building on Carleton campus.

What is the Tory building?

200

The amount of Engineering majors available at Carleton.

What is 13?


200

Java, Python, C++ are all examples of this type of programming language.

What is object oriented programming?

200

This number system uses the digits 0-F instead of the usual 0-9.

What is the hexidecimal system?

200

Java:

String s = new String("This code is smelly.");

String s = "This code is not smelly.";

300

The amount of clubs and societies available to Carleton students. (guess within the closest hundred)

What is over 300?

300

The amount of students enrolled in Engineering at Carleton. (guess within the closest thousand)

What is over 7250?

300

Scrum and sprints are examples of uses of this project management methodology.

What is agile methodology?

300

In Java, if class A "implements" B, then B must be a...

What is an interface?

300

In Java, if you perform the equation "int x = (1 / 0);", this exception will be thrown.

What is an ArithmeticException?

400

The year that Carleton was founded.

What is 1942?

400

The year that Carleton established the Faculty of Engineering.

What is 1963?

400

The world's first programmer.

Who is Ada Lovelace?

400

Of the following data structures, only this one falls under the category of a 'dictionary'.

- Tree - Hash - Linked list - Hash table


What is a hash table?

400

The line in the shown Python code that contains an error.

What is line 10?

500

The amount of faculties available to undergraduate students at Carleton.

What is 22?

500

The year that the first computer related engineering program, the Computer Systems Engineering program, was established at Carleton.

What is 1981?

500

The world's first Software Engineer.

Who is Margaret Hamilton?

500

This is performed on 00111010 to turn it into 01110100.

What is a left bit shift?

500

The line in the shown C code that contains an error.

What is line 11?

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