Programming Languages
Algorithms
MISC
CS Culture
NCF CS Department
100

print("Hello World!")

What is Python?

100

A simple graph search algorithm that searches iteratively, level-by-level.

What is breadth-first search?

100

What is the model of computing invented by Alan Turing?

What is a Turing machine?

100

The California city that is known as a major tech hub.

What is Silicon Valley?

100

The name of the professor who recently left who traditionally taught Software Engineering.

Who is Professor Doucette?

200

System.out.println("Hello World!");

What is Java?

200

A sorting algorithm that picks a pivot randomly at each iteration.

What is QuickSort?

200

What does ACM stand for?

What is the Association for Computing Machinery?

200

This clothing article is stereotypically popular among coders.

What are hoodies?

200

This CS room has two distinct room numbers.

What is HNE 167/168?

300

printf("Hello World");

What is C?

300

Expected O() runtime for Mergesort.

What is O(n log(n))?

300

When was Java invented?

What is 1995?

300

The popular meal replacement that shares a name with a famous dystopian novel. 

What is Soylent? 

300

Professor Gillman's cat

Who is Rufus?

400

(display "Hello World!)

What is Scheme?

400

What is the optimal runtime for an algorithm that searches for a string of length n, in a larger sting of length m.

What is O(m)?

400

What is the technique called where you write a bad OS kernel, then iteratively run the kernel through itself to improve it?

What is bootstrapping?

400
This is the location of the new Amazon HQ2.

What is Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia

400

Professor Lepinski's cat's?

Who are Mini and Luther.

500

putStrLn "Hello, world!"

What is Haskell?

500

What class are NCF CS students first introduced to bubble sort in?

What is OOP?

500

Who is the ex-Benevolent dictator for life for Python?

Who is Guido van Rossum?

500

A flame-war between these two text-based editors is known as?

What is VIM vs EMACS?

500

Before the CS department moved to Heiser in 2017, all the professor offices were in ____.

What is the third floor of Ace?