Gaming
This 1972 Atari game, one of the first commercially successful video games, simulates table tennis
Pong
This is where the Chips play basketball
McGurk arena
This is the keyword for writing to terminal in Python
print()
This invention replaced vacuum tubes, making computers smaller and faster
Transistor
This person created the Linux kernel
Linus Torvalds
Sony released this console in 1994
Playstation
This person was the president of the university before Neil McKinnon
Bob Davies
The three ways programming languages turn into machine code are compiled, interpreted, and ...
JIT (Just In Time Compilation)
This was the first general-purpose electronic computer
ENIAC
This is the standard shell
Bash
This is the engine behind Fortnite.
Unreal Engine
The year CMU was founded
1892
In Java, this special method has the same name as its class, has no return type, and runs when you use the new keyword.
The constructor
This person formalized binary and calculus
Gottfried Leibniz
This directory stores system binaries
/bin
This game contained the first easter egg
Starship 1 (Discovered in 2017 from a 1977 game, predating adventure in 1979)
This person attended CMU prior to working on the film Dumb and Dumber
Jeff Daniels
Rust guarantees memory safety without a garbage collector because of this concept / implementation.
Ownership / The Borrow Checker
This person invented C
Dennis Ritchie
This command allows you to modify file permissions
chmod
This game, made in 1999, is famous for optimizing the "fast inverse square root" in a way that was faster than anything else available at the time.
Quake III Arena
In 1938 this animal was the CMU mascot
Bearcat
This programming language primarily uses symbols from mathematical notation for code, and uses a 2-dimensional array as it's primitive type.
Example of code that returns the average of a list
{(+⌿⍵)÷≢⍵} 3 4.5 7 21
8.875
APL (A Programming Language)
This person is known as "the father of the computer"
Charles Babbage
This is root's uid
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