Coding Jeopardy!

Coding Vocab

100

What is an algorithm?

A list of steps that you can use to follow a task

200

What are conditionals?

Programs or "rewards" that only run when certain parameters are met.

300

What is looping?

The act of doing something over and over again

400

What is a program?

An algorithm (or collection of algorithms) that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine

500

Why is debugging necessary when you work in a team?

Several programmers working on the same code can create inconsistencies which lead to bugs in the finished product.

Coding IRL

100

Name the videogame company that didn't put any work into debugging its games, creating bug filled titles such as Assassin's Creed Unity

Ubisoft

200

What gameshow did a coded robot intelligence completely DESTROY the human champion in?

Jeopardy! THE GAME WE ARE LITERALLY PLAYING RIGHT NOW!

300

Name a household item (NOT A COMPUTER OR PHONE) that employs coding and programming to function

Varies

400

Name the American computer hacker, computer criminal and police informer, who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007, the biggest such fraud in history!

Who is Albert Gonzalez 

500

With how mainstream coding and programming has become, pop culture is beginning to feature it in several tv shows and movies. Name one example of a show or movie that works in coding and/or programming

Varies

Type of code, or science fiction?

100

C++

REAL CODE!

200

NeuroNet

Science Fiction

300

Java

Code!

400

KASSHYK

SCIENCE FICTION

500

ColdFusion

CODE! Used by Adobe

Coding In The Commonwealth

100

Facebook was invented here

What is Harvard

200

Up until 2005 NASA was still utilizing this coding language developed in 1973

What is HAL/S (or High-order Assembly Language/Shuttle) 

300

This company is designing robots for the US Military including the Atlas, Spot, and Stretch

Boston Dynamics

400

Commonly miscredited to Harvard after finding a moth in their Mark II computer the term debugging can actually be found to be first used by this well known inventor as early as 1869

Who is Thomas Edison 

500

What MASSIVE tech/coding internet company has their east coast headquarters in Cambridge??

What is GOOGLE?

TECHNOLOGY GRAB BAG!

100

What company codes phones (that sometime explode), washer machines, and now FRIDGES!

Samsung

200

This company wants to use drones to deliver packages

What is Amazon?

300

This technology allows for computer aided designs to be built to their exact specifications, in real time.

What is a 3D Printer?

400

This American city's public transportation system runs ENTIRELY off of pullies and cables.

What is San Francisco (cable cars)?

500

This well known sometimes loved and sometimes hated tech genius is one of the foremost names in clean energy and transportation. He also owns a company that builds tunnels, with the goal to move transportation underground. The name of that company is...

What is the Boring Company?