History
This athletic conference founded in 1909 had all it's members from Texas and was the first conference UNT joined in 1921.
What is the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association?
Originally named Mean Green Stadium and has been named Apogee Stadium since 2011, this 30,000+ stadium is home turf to the Mean Green football team.
What is DATCU Stadium?
A former UNT jazz piano major, she later went on to sell over 50 million records, win nine grammy awards and be recipient of the 2016 UNT Presidential Medal of Honor.
Who is Norah Jones?
A software intermediary that allows two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It simplifies programming by abstracting the underlying implementation and only exposing objects or actions the developer needs.
What is an API?
An open-source high-level programming language developed by Microsoft that adds static typing with optional type annotations to JavaScript
What is TypeScript?
One of the first black players on the UNT football team in 1956, by his senior year in 1959 was ranked seventh in the nation in rushing, fifth in scoring, and led North Texas to the 1959 Sun Bowl.
Who is Abner Hayes?
This consensus All-American UNT football player was the centerpiece of the "Steel Curtain" defense that led Pittsburgh to four Super Bowl championships from 1974 to 1979.
Who was "Mean" Joe Greene?
It is the title of UNT’s Alma Mater which pays homage to everyone’s favorite color.
What is ‘Glory to the Green’ (or ‘Singing Glory to the Green’)?
A common 3 letter acronym for a data integration process that gets data from one or more sources, creates a consistent structure, and puts it into a data warehouse or other target system.
What is ETL?
A platform and cloud-based service owned by Microsoft. It is for software development and version control using Git, allowing developers to store and manage their code.
What is GitHub?
This UNT System department existed for about a decade and has been rebranded as UNT System Information Technology in 2023.
What is IT Shared Services?
This Mean Green Women's basketball coach holds the most wins spanning 19 seasons
Who is Tina Slinker with 241 Wins / 287 Losses?
It is the musical degree earned by UNT System IT’s own Jason Myre, even though he doesn’t talk about it much and no one's ever actually heard him sing.
What is Voice (or Vocal) Performance?
An approach to web design that makes web pages render well on all screen sizes and resolutions while ensuring good usability
Responsive UI?
A change point or "save point" tracked by Git. It saves progress and changes to source code. It is a point in a project you can go back to, if needed. The Git command to create this uses the -m parameter to add a message.
What is a Git commit?
In 2001 this Dallas university surpassed the 1,000-students threshold requirement before Governor Rick Perry signed a law granting them independent status.
What is University of North Texas at Dallas?
The nickname given to the two sets of twins who set two world records while representing the UNT men's track team in Madison Square Gardens in 1938?
Who are the Eagle Twins? (Elmer Brown, Delmer Brown, Wayne Rideout and Blaine Rideout)
A direct descendant of Daniel, this 1950’s crooner honed his smooth tones on the Saturday night stage in Denton performing with the like of NTSC’s ‘Fessor Graham, and the Moonmaids.
Who is Pat Boone?
It is a front-end Javascript library developed by Meta formerly known as Facebook
What is React?
A multi-platform simple Python version management tool. It was forked from rbenv and ruby-build
What is pyenv?
Founded in 1966 this Texas college became The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth.
What is the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine?
This former ITSS director won the 2016 SECC Tricycle Race.
Who is Kendra Ketchum?
The Steve Miller Band song played (almost too) often during gaps in the UNT basketball and football games.
What is ‘Fly Like an Eagle’?
A programming paradigm where programs are constructed by applying and composing functions with its roots in academia, evolving from lambda calculus
What is Functional programming?
Originally release in 2018, this Python packaging and dependency management tool replaces setup.py, requirements.txt, setup.cfg, MANIFEST.in and Pipfile with a simple pyproject.toml based project format.
What is Poetry?