Progamming Languages & Syntax
Data Structures
Tech History & Famous Figures
CS Pop Culture & Memes
100

The symbol is used to comment a single line in Python.

What is a #

100

The Data structure that is often implemented as a linked list in computer science?

When is a Stack or Queue?

100

This company, founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, started as a social network for college students and later became a global platform. 

What is Facebook?

100

This website is widely used by developers for programming help, troubleshooting, and asking or answering questions about coding issues.

What is Stack Overflow?

200

In Python, this special method is used to represent the string version of an object when it is printed or converted to a string.

What is str()?

200

This data structure can be used to represent a collection of items, where each item is accessed using a key, and it supports efficient search, insertion, and deletion operations.

What is a Dictionary (or Map)?

200

The operating system that was created by Linus Torvalds?

What is Linux?

200

This term refers to a system crash in a Windows operating system, typically showing a blue screen with error information.

 What is the Blue Screen of Death?

300

In java, what does == check for?

What is strict equality - value and type match?

300

 In this type of tree structure, the left subtree of a node contains only nodes with values less than the node’s value, and the right subtree contains only nodes with values greater than the node’s value.

What is a Binary Search Tree (BST)?

300

The co-founder of Microsoft alongside Bill Gates?

Who is Paul Allen?

300

The meaning of "RTFM" in developer slang?

What is "Read the Fine Manual"?

400

In Python, this keyword is used to handle exceptions, allowing a programmer to define a block of code to execute if an error occurs.

What is try and except?

400

This structure, often used in graph theory, stores edges and vertices with efficient access, typically represented as an adjacency matrix or adjacency list.

What is a Graph Representation?

400

This company, co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, is known for its search engine.

What is Google?

400

This classic developer excuse is often said when a program works on one machine but not on others.

What is "It works on my machine"?

500

In Java, this method of the String class is used to compare two strings lexicographically and returns an integer indicating their relative order.

What is compareTo()?

500

This type of data structure is a special kind of linked list where each node has two pointers, one pointing to the next node and another pointing to the previous node.

What is a Doubly Linked List?

500

This groundbreaking programming language, developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems in 1995, was designed to be platform-independent and is known for its "write once, run anywhere" capability.  

What is Java?

500

This movie popularized the "red pill vs. blue pill" choice, which is frequently referenced in tech culture.

What is The Matrix?