Python Syntax
In Python, this symbol is used to start a single-line comment.
What is #?
This device, invented in 1964 by Douglas Engelbart, revolutionized how we interact with computers.
What is the computer mouse?
This basic security measure helps prevent unauthorized access by requiring a secret code to log in.
What is a password?
If set A has 3 elements and set B has 4 elements, how many elements are in A × B?
What is 12?
This is the introductory programming course for Computer Science majors at Tulane.
What is CMPS 1500 (Intro to Computer Science I)?
This Python operator is used for floor division.
What is // (double forward slash)?
This company released the first commercially successful personal computer, the Apple II, in 1977.
What is Apple?
This type of software is designed to detect and remove malicious programs from a computer.
What is antivirus software?
This term describes a set with no elements.
What is an empty set (or null set)?
Tulane's CS capstone project spans this many semesters.
What is two? (CMPS 4010 and 4020)
In Python, this built-in function is used to iterate over a sequence of numbers.
What is range()?
This programming language, created in the 1970s, is known for its use in web development.
What is JavaScript?
This common cyber attack involves tricking users into revealing sensitive information by posing as a trustworthy entity.
What is phishing?
In Boolean algebra, this operation returns true if at least one input is true.
What is OR?
Tulane's Computer Science program emphasizes this programming paradigm in its curriculum.
What is object-oriented programming?
In Python this function is used to get the length of a string or list.
What is len()?
This British mathematician is often considered the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
Who is Alan Turing?
This type of malicious software encrypts a victim's files and demands payment for the decryption key.
What is ransomware?
This operation combines two sets to include all elements from both sets.
What is union (∪)?
The total number of credit hours required for Tulane's Computer Science Coordinate Major.
What is 30?
In Python, this method is used to add an item to the end of a list.
What is append()?
The first email was sent in this decade.
What is the 1970s?
This network security device monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic.
What is a firewall?
This principle states that if you have n pigeons and m pigeonholes, and n > m, then at least one pigeonhole must contain more than one pigeon.
What is the Pigeonhole Principle?
The Chair of the Department of Computer Science.
Who is Carola Wenk?