WiCS
This exec position is responsible for occupying space in your inboxes lol
What is Secretary General
Her brilliant mathematical mind calculated and analysed flight paths for NASA's space expeditions
(Who is) Katherine Johnson
This programming language taught in 1st year CompSci shares the same name as a non-venomous serpent
What is Python
This translates a high-level language program to a low-level
What is a Compiler
All software runs on combinations of just two digits. It's a type of code the computers run on
What is Binary
The guest speaker represents this company that happens to be one of our partners
What is Women in Tech
Mother of the Theory of Radioactivity, the 1st ever to 2 receive Nobel Prizes each from a different discipline of science
Who is Marie Curie
A thread of material twisted together to form a thin length is also a sequence of characters enclosed in single or double quotes
What is a String
In a programming language, these are words with a fixed meaning and cannot be redefined by a programmer
What are Reserved Words/what is a reserved word
The first computer virus shares the same name as a hostile mob that silently approaches enemies and explodes in a java coded game called Minecraft
What is a Creeper
Name the roles of the WiCS exec
<all the roles>
This scientist that co-designed Havard's computer with Howard Aiken, invented the compiler that translated written language into computer code. She found that a moth had gotten into a relay when cleaning out the machine. This gave birth to a technique that often comes up during code testing
What is a Bug/ What is Debugging
Largest tropical rainforest, Jeff B's tech company
What is Amazon
A modifier allowing external access to a particular variable or method
What is Public
This child was dedicated to maths and science so that they would not fall into madness as their poet father. This child grew up to be the 1st person to write our modern understanding of a program
Who is Ada Lovelace
This year is when WiCS was established/recognised as a society
What (year) is 2015
Chemist! Her discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, is attributed to Watson and Crick. (makes me fume a bit every time). This discovery has led to the better understanding of the structres of viruses
Who is Rosalind Franklin
Accessing a piece of sequence is as easy as cutting up cake
What is Slicing
The "grammar" rules of the programming language need to be followed otherwise this type of error is made
What is Syntax (error)
There are over this many programming languages
What is 700
The vision for WiCS
<Response very close to what has been stated in the vision, basically free style>
Ice cream maker, her hand operated machine still works to this day since 1843.
Who is Nancy Johnson
I'm in a disagreement, so I pass it onto a function during the call
What is an Argument
This type of font is used in programming that makes reading numbers and punctuation marks because they're all evenly spaced
What is (a) Monospaced font
Infinty can't be expressed as an integer all languages EXCEPT python. How is this achieved?
What is float('inf')