northwestern
how many schools is northwestern home to?
12 schools and colleges
This binary numbering system uses base 16 and is commonly used in memory addresses
What is Hexadecimal
founded Chicago.
Who is Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
The year tech layoffs peaked
what is 2023
correlation does not imply this.
what is causation
In what year was northwestern founded?
1851
This property of an algorithm guarantees it will eventually stop running for all valid inputs
What is termination?
what is Evanston Township High School's Mascot?
Wildkits
What are the top five states with the most SWE roles?
California 13,308
Texas 6,629
Washington 5,598
New York 4,566
Virginia
what python library is used for data analysis and manipulation?
pandas
what is the name of the all-time leading scorer of the Wildcat Basketball team?
Boo Buie
This tree data structure maintains sorted data and guarantees O(log n) search time by enforcing height balance
what is an AVL Tree
Who is the all time leading scorer for the Chicago bulls
Michael Jordan
what are the top three best employers of Software Engineers (according to Forbes)?
Microsoft, Google, Micron
What’s the difference between Type I and Type II errors?
Type I -> (false positive) is rejecting a true null hypothesis
Type II -> (false negative) is failing to reject a false null hypothesis
Before purple, what were the original colors of Northwestern?
Black and Gold
This condition occurs when two or more processes are each waiting indefinitely for resources held by the others
What is deadlock
How many miles is Northwestern from Downtown Chicago
14 miles
what percent of SWE's are black?
5%
When one nominal variable's level significantly outweighs another level
what is class imbalance
1971
This class of problems can be verified in polynomial time, but no polynomial time solution is currently known
what is NP
State the NU land acknowledgement word by word.
The Northwestern campus sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa as well as the Menominee, Miami and Ho-Chunk nations.
How many software engineering interns currently employed in the US?
64,715 (Zippia)
IN SQL: Join orders to customers using customer_id, keeping all orders.
what is
LEFT JOIN customers
ON orders.customer_id = customers.customer_id