General Knowledge
Computer Parts
Coding Languages
Coding Jargon and Slang
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100

This American technology company is currently the world’s largest software maker and leading creator of personal computers, cloud services, artificial intelligence, and video games.

What is Microsoft?

100

This is an input device that allows to enter characters into a computer.

What is a keyboard?

100

The original name for this language was Oak, and it was intended for interactive television; it was developed in 1991.

What is Java?

100

This refers to a collection of tools, libraries, and practices that developers can use to build more efficiently.

What is framework?

100

Ctrl + C

What is copy?

200

Candy Crush Saga initially debuted on this popular standalone smartphone app. It is a free online social networking service and is now linked to Instagram under the same parent company.

What is Facebook?

200

This is a display screen used to display information processed by a computer.

What is a monitor?

200

This high-level interpreted scripting language lets you add interactivity and dynamic behaviour to web pages. It forms the core foundation of the World Wide Web.

What is Javascript?

200

This software acts as an intermediary for two or more computer programs communicating with each other.

What is API?

200

This combination is used to move between two or more open Excel files.

What is Ctrl + Tab?

300

The acronym PIN is used when a password is limited strictly to numeric characters. What does it stand for?

What is Personal Identification Number?

300

This is the main circuit board of the computer and the structure that connects the different parts of a computer.

What is a motherboard?

300

This single-letter computer programming language formed the core of the UNIX operating system and was made in the early 1970s.

What is C?

300

According to Wikipedia, this kind of code uses little to no programming style rules and is mostly created by inexperienced software engineers.

What is spaghetti code?

300

This combination is used to move between Excel worksheets in the same document.

What is Ctrl + Page up/Page down?

400

This popular operating system launched in 1991 and has its own mascot, Tux the penguin.

What is Linux?

400

This is often called the brain or engine of the computer, where most processing and operations take place. It is the component of a computer that executes, interprets, and carries out all instructions.


What is CPU or Central Processing Unit?

400

Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum developed this language; the name comes from his favourite TV show. It uses modules, dynamic data types, and classes and runs on many platforms.

What is Python?

400

This is an open-source code management and version control system. It is also the name of a website and service where developers store, manage, and share code.

What is Git (Github)?

400

On Outlook, this combination is used to send an email.

What is Alt + S?
500

This term refers to a testing environment in a computer system where new or untested software or code can be securely tested. In different contexts, it can also refer to a children’s play area.

What is sandbox?

500

RAM is a type of computer memory that temporarily stores programs and data. Once a computer is turned off, everything in the RAM is erased. This is what RAM stands for.

What is Random-Access Memory?

500

HTML is used to create web pages and was created in 1990. It contains tags, and each tag represents something displayed on the page. This is what HTML stands for.


What is Hyper Text Markup Language?

500

This is the "art" of changing random parts of a codebase in the hopes of solving a bug. Doing this hits multiple places at once without much visible structure.

What is shotgun debugging?

500

On Word 2000+, this is used to repeat the last action performed. It uses a function key.

What is F4?