SWE Culture/History
Nickname of large tech hub in San Francisco Bay Area
Silicon Valley
Companies included in FAANG
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google
Querying language used in class to fetch and update data from TestudoBank’s DB
SQL
The two most popular JavaScript frameworks
React, AngularJS
Nicknames for private tech startups with >$1B valuation
Unicorn
Facebook origin story film starring Jesse Eisenberg & Andrew Garfield
The Social Network
Name 5 co-founders of any of the FAANG companies
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin
Apple: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak
Amazon: Jeff Bezos
Netflix: Reed Hastings
Google: Sergey Brin, Larry Page
Name 4 Object-Oriented programming languages
Java, Ruby, C++, Python, JavaScript, Perl, Scala, Visual Basic.NET, C#, etc
3 Components of MVC Architecture
Model, View, Controller
A Handbook on Agile Software Craftmanship used to make lectures for this class
Clean Code by Robert C Martin
Yearly Silicon Valley startup showcase competition hosted by TechCrunch
TechCrunch Disrupt
Name 5 B2C (Business-to-Consumer) tech companies
Facebook, Apple, Google, Spotify, Netflix, Robinhood, Reddit, PayPal, etc
Name 2 programming languages commonly used for statistical analysis and data science
Python, R, SAS
Java Framework that TestudoBank is built on
Spring, Spring Web
2020 Netflix Drama-Documentary on the dangers of social media and the targeted ads business model
The Social Dilemma
Silicon Valley tech startup accelerator that launched Stripe, Airbnb, Twitch, Doordash, Coinbase, etc.
YCombinator
Name 4 B2B (Business-to-Business) Tech Companies
Palantir, Twilio, Plaid, Stripe, Shopify, Salesforce
Programming language taught in CMSC330 that enforces lots of memory safety at compile time and was the “Most Loved Language” in StackOverflow’s Developer Survey 4 years in a row
Rust
Lightweight, intuitive data format used to send data between application servers and web pages (and used heavily in JavaScript)
JSON
Name 2 Quantitative Finance or High Frequency Trading firms
Citadel, 2Sigma, IMC Trading, Renaissance Technologies, DRW, SIQ, Five Rings Capital, etc.
Inventor of C++
Bjarne Stroustrup
Silicon Valley rapid blood-testing device startup currently on trial for fraud
Theranos
Preferred programming language of High-Frequency Trading firms to execute trades due to its efficiency and granular access to memory
C++
Open-source querying language for APIs developed by Facebook.
GraphQL
Name 3 programming languages invented before 1971
Fortran, LISP, Cobol, Basic, Pascal