Coding Basics
A container used in code to store information or data values that can change later.
What is a variable?
The mascot for the Python programming language is named after this type of animal.
What is a snake (or python)?
Often called the "brain" of the computer, this main processor carries out instructions.
What is the CPU (Central Processing Unit)?
The more of this you take, the more you leave behind.
What are footsteps?
This exec’s favorite dessert is a cold, sweet treat served in a cone or a cup—ice cream!
Who is Manush?
A sequence of instructions that repeats over and over until a specific condition is met.
What is a loop?
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are the three primary languages used to build these.
What are websites (or web pages)?
Physical computer hardware you click with your hand to move a cursor across the screen.
What is a mouse?
What has to be broken before you can use it?
What is an egg?
If you hear rhythmic beats in the background, it’s probably this exec playing the drums.
Who is Arav?
The term for finding and fixing errors or "bugs" in your code.
What is debugging?
Popular block-based visual programming platform created by MIT to help beginners learn code.
What is Scratch?
This temporary short-term memory clears every time you shut down or restart your computer.
What is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
What is a towel?
This exec loves South Indian food more than any other type of cuisine.
Who is Shiv?
Statements like "if" and "else" that allow a program to make decisions based on whether something is true or false.
What are conditionals (or boolean conditions)?
The green, alien-like mascot represents this mobile operating system created by Google.
What is Android?
The key you press on a keyboard to create a blank space between typed words.
What is the Spacebar?
I have cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish.
What is a map?
While many beginners start with Python, this exec’s favorite programming language is C++.
Who is Saransh?
A reusable block of code designed to perform a single, specific task when called.
What is a function (or method)?
The numeric system consisting of only 0s and 1s that computers use to process all data.
What is binary?
The main circuit board inside a computer that connects the CPU, memory, and hardware together.
What is a motherboard?
What belongs to you, but other people use it far more than you do?
What is your name?
This exec has rewatched his favorite TV show, Suits, a total of 10 times.
Who is Jainam?