WiCS
Hidden Figures
Name's the same
Terminologies
Oh, okay!
100

This exec position is responsible for occupying space in your inboxes lol

What is Secretary General 

100

Her brilliant mathematical mind calculated and analysed flight paths for NASA's space expeditions

(Who is) Katherine Johnson

100

This programming language taught in 1st year CompSci shares the same name as a non-venomous serpent

What is Python

100

This translates a high-level language program to a low-level 

What is a Compiler

100

All software runs on combinations of just two digits. It's a type of code the computers run on

What is Binary

200

The guest speaker represents this company that happens to be one of our partners

What is Women in Tech

200

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

200

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

200

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

200

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

300

Name the roles of the WiCS exec

<all the roles>

300

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

300

Largest tropical rainforest, Jeff B's tech company

What is Amazon

300

A modifier allowing external access to a particular variable or method

What is Public

300

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

400

This year is when WiCS was established/recognised as a society

What (year) is 2015

400

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

400

Accessing a piece of sequence is as easy as cutting up cake

What is Slicing

400

The "grammar" rules of the programming language need to be followed otherwise this type of error is made 

What is Syntax (error)

400

There are over this many programming languages

What is 700

500

The vision for WiCS

<Response very close to what has been stated in the vision, basically free style>

500

Ice cream maker, her hand operated machine still works to this day since 1843.

Who is Nancy Johnson

500

I'm in a disagreement, so I pass it onto a function during the call

What is an Argument

500

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

500

Infinty can't be expressed as an integer all languages EXCEPT python. How is this achieved?

What is float('inf')

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