Programming
Fundamentals
Fundamentals
This data structure works on a FIFO (first-in, first-out) principle.
What is a queue?
What company was founded in a garage by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975?
What is Microsoft?
What symbol is used to end a statement in Java?
What is a semicolon (;)?
What is the largest country in the world by land area?
What is Russia?
Who was the first president of the United States?
Who is George Washington?
The time complexity of binary search on a sorted list.
What is O(log n)?
What was the name of the first commercially successful personal computer released by Apple in 1977?
What is the Apple II?
What symbol is used for a single-line comment in Java?
What is //?
Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, is located on the border of China and what other country?
What is Nepal?
Which U.S. president owned a pet alligator that lived in the White House bathroom?
Who is John Quincy Adams?
In object-oriented programming, this principle allows a subclass to override methods of its superclass.
What is polymorphism?
This search engine, founded in a garage in 1998, changed the way we access information.
What is Google?
What keyword in Java creates a new object?
What is 'new'?
Which U.S. state has the nickname “The Sunshine State”?
What is Florida?
What ancient ruler attempted to build an army of terracotta soldiers so he could conquer the afterlife?
Who is Qin Shi Huang?
What is the Big-O time complexity of inserting into a HashMap on average?
What is O(1)?
What 2008 invention by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the world to decentralized digital currency?
What is Bitcoin?
What does “OOP” stand for?
What is Object-Oriented Programming?
What U.S. state is famous for having the Grand Canyon?
What is Arizona?
In medieval Europe, what animal was put on trial for stealing crops and occasionally executed?
What are pigs (or various farm animals)?
This algorithm is commonly used for shortest paths in weighted graphs with non-negative edges.
What is Dijkstra’s algorithm?
This early computer bug involved an actual moth stuck in a relay.
What is the first recorded computer bug?
In Java, what is the name of a function that runs automatically when an object is created?
What is a constructor?
What landlocked country is completely surrounded by another single country? (There are only three in the world.)
What is Lesotho (also acceptable: San Marino or Vatican City)?
What was the name of the vow taken by the Third Estate in 1789, swearing not to disband until a French constitution was written, after they were locked out of their meeting hall?
What is the Tennis Court Oath?