Cache Me Outside
(Computer Basics)
(Computer Basics)
This smallest unit of digital data can be either a 0 or a 1.
What is a bit?
This protocol defines the rules for transferring web pages and prefixes URLs.
What is HTTP?
A file format containing only characters with no styling or formatting metadata.
What is plain text?
This command lists files and directories in the current working directory.
What is ls?
The practice of tracking and managing changes to files over time is called this.
What is version control?
This unit equals eight bits and is commonly used to encode a single character.
What is a byte?
This system translates human-friendly domain names into IP addresses that computers use.
What is DNS?
A popular, free, cross-platform code editor from Microsoft with IntelliSense and extensions.
What is Visual Studio Code?
This command changes your current working directory to a specified path.
What is cd?
The local directory containing your project’s history, identifiable by a .git folder.
What is a repository?
This non-mechanical storage device uses flash memory for faster read/write speeds.
What is an SSD?
The portion of a URL after the domain name that specifies the exact resource location.
What is the path?
Originally called “Vi IMproved,” this modal editor’s name hints at its roots in the classic UNIX vi.
What is Vim?
This command creates a new directory with the name you provide.
What is mkdir?
This command records a snapshot of your staged changes.
What is git commit?
This processing unit specializes in rendering images and handling highly parallel tasks.
What is a GPU?
Software on your device that sends requests for web resources and displays the responses.
What is a web browser?
A dotfile named .editorconfig that enforces consistent coding styles across editors.
What is EditorConfig?
These options, starting with one or two dashes (like -l), modify how commands behave.
What are flags?
This command duplicates an existing remote repository onto your local machine.
What is git clone?
This main circuit board connects the CPU, memory, and peripherals, allowing them to communicate.
What is the motherboard?
This HTTP request method fetches a resource without altering server data.
What is GET?
This Microsoft application saves documents in DOCX format (with embedded XML styling), making it a poor choice for writing code.
What is Microsoft Word?
Symbols such as * and ? that let you match multiple file names with a single pattern.
What are wildcards?
This feature lets you create independent lines of development within the same project.
What is a branch?