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CSCI 1133
This popular scripting language that runs in web browsers and enables dynamic interaction on websites
What is JavaScript?
Before becoming a retail and cloud giant, this company operated out of a garage in Seattle and once sold everything from books to live lobsters on its website
What is Amazon?
Given an array of integers nums and an integer target, return indices of the two numbers such that they add up to target. You may assume that each input has exactly one solution.
What is HashMap?
Who was the most streamed artist as of 2026
What is Bad Bunny?
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What is the main difference between interpreted languages and compiled languages?
What is Interpreted languages execute code line by line at runtime; compiled languages are translated into machine code before execution
Founded by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc, this company provides real-time observability for cloud applications and became known for combining monitoring, security, and analytics in a single SaaS platform
What is Datadog?
You're given an array nums of distinct integers. Return all possible subsets (the power set). The solution set must not contain duplicate subsets.
What is Backtracking?
This social media platform, launched in 2010, and popularized lip-syncing trends?
What is TikTok?
This programming paradigm is built around encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.
What is Object-Oriented Programing
This tool, created in 2005, helps developers track changes to their code and is widely used in open-source projects.
What is Git?
Before adopting its current name and branding in the 1960s, this retail chain was originally called the Dayton Company and opened its first retail chain in Roseville, MN.
What is Target?
Given an array of integers nums and an integer k, find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray of size k.
What is Sliding Window?
In Game of Thrones this character’s father was burned alive after demanding a trial by combat, and his brother was also killed, events that sparked a rebellion and eventually led him to become Warden of the North.
Who is Ned Stark?
This programming language, created in 1991, is named after a British comedy group.
Python
In programming, an array is a data structure that stores elements of the same type in a continuous ____?
What is block of memory/data?
This company created the distributed data processing engine Spark and later built a lakehouse platform around it.
What is Databricks?
Given an array of integers nums, find the next greater element for each element in the array. The next greater element of a number x is the first number to the right of x in the array that is larger than x. If no such number exists, return -1 for that position
What is Stack?
This Marvel character first appeared in comics in 1966 and rules this fictional African nation. What is that fictional nation called?
What is Wakanda?
This programming language was created by a 23-year-old student as part of a grad school project at Stanford and later became the backbone of Android development.
In database systems, these occur when two or more transactions prevent each other from proceeding because each is waiting for resources locked by the other
What is a deadlock?
Founded in 1998 by two PhD students at Stanford, this company revolutionized search by creating an algorithm that ranks web pages by relevance and popularity
What is Google?
You are given a directed, weighted graph with possibly negative weights. Return true if there is no negative-weight cycle reachable from the source and false otherwise.
What is Bellman-Ford?
In One Piece, what is the name of the ancient weapon for which Franky possessed the blueprints for?
What is Pluton?