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| What does the Operating System acronym GNU stand for? |
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| He is the founder of the Free Software Foundation, often referred to by his email address, rms. |
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| This Operating System was a candidate for the first IBM PC, but lost out to MS-DOS. |
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| A scenario in which a judge communicates with a concealed human and a computer program, and tries to determine from conversation which one is which. A program demonstrating intelligence should be able to masquerade as human. |
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| Ancient program used to clean up C programs? |
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| Prototypical engineer created by Scott Adams |
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| Phrase commonly heard at Microsoft that may have originated at Alpo. |
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| What is the nickname for Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman? |
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| EBCDIC (Ebb-su-dick) Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
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| A character set long used on IBM hardware that is incompatible with just about everything else. |
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| im in ur base, killing ur d00dz. |
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| What famous phrase came from the game Starcraft? |
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| What text editor did Richard Stallman write? |
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| Scott Fahlman at CMU in 1982 |
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| 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970 |
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| When did the UNIX epoch start? |
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| When will UNIX use up all of its bits for time of day? |
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| The kind of error generated when solving this problem: If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need? |
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| A day on which a change is made that is not backwards or forwards compatible, named after a US holidy on which a MULTICS change upgrade took place. |
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| Probably the WWII slang term, FUBAR. |
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| Where did 'foo' come from? |
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| Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, 1995 |
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| Book written by the Gang of Four |
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| Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides |
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| The name of the copyright notice in the GNU General Public License |
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| The minimal demonstration program in the C programming world. |
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| Rule that speculates that most of the time in a program is spent in a relatively small amount of space. |
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| The One True Brace Style - a form of indenting used in the K&R C book. |
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| Kernighan and Ritchie invented something called the 1TBS, what is it? |
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| What was the original project name for Java? |
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| Job Control Language, or JCL |
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| The script language used to control jobs on IBM mainframes. |
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| Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book "The C Programming Language" is known by what nickname? |
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| Microprocessor crated by Intel that should have been the 586, but was given a name instead. |
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| What is the name commonly used for the The Pracical Extraction and Reporting Language? |
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| A follow up to UNIX from researchers at Bell Labs, including Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. |
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| SMOP: a Simple Matter of Programming |
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| Term used to indicate the trivial nature of some coding task. |
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| Apple's innovated PDA that was axed by Steve Jobs after his return to leadership in 1997. |
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| Who was the first editor of Dr. Dobb's Journal? |
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| Who is the current editor of Dr. Dobb's Journal? |
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| Nerd, from the line in which Gerald says he would collect "a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too" |
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| In the Dr. Seuss Book, "If I Ran the Zoo", Seuss coined a geeky name that appears to be stuck with us for eternity. |
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| TeX, a complete typesetting system |
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| When Donald Knuth was unhappy with the galley proofs for one of his books, he solve the problem by designing and implementing what? |
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| Name of the Linux Penguin, adopted as official mascot in a 1996 contest |
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| The first widely distributed version of UNIX released by AT&T in 1978. |
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| He wrote the vi editor for an early release of BSD. |
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| The commercial operating system DEC created for the VAX. |
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| WIMP - Windows, Icons, Mice, Pull-Down menus. Or maybe Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointing Device |
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| An early acronym for a well-configured GUI system. |
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| The central character in a very early text-based computer game called Hunt The Wumpus. |
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DRY - don't repeat yourself
or DRY SPOT - Single Point of Truth |
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| Acronym for an adage recommending against multiple copies of things. |
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| The C++ compiler released by AT&T in 1985, and the reference for the language until ISO standardization. |
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| Pearl - but he soon discovered the name was already taken. |
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| Larry Wall originally named his programming language: |
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| O'Reilly, which has now branched out to other types of covers as well. |
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| What publisher is known for its series of books with animals on the cover? |
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| Pirates of Silicon Valley |
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| Which movie starred Noah Wyie as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates? |
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| What chess-playing computer developed by IBM that defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997? |
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| The Art of Computer Programming |
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| Donald Knuth wrote what, still unfinished, multi volume work on programming algorithms and their analysis? |
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| Mosaic, written by Mark Andreessen at the University of Illinois. |
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| What was the predecessor of the Netscape Navigator web browser? |
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| What is the relationship between Java and Javascript? |
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| It is credited to Charles Simonyi,a Hungarian. |
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| How did Hungarian notation get its name? |
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| Which language featured the first Just In Time (JIT) compiler? |
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| Name three successors to Pascal |
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| trick question, nobody knows |
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| Who created the Dining Philsophers problem? |
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| Who is the only person to win both the Turing Award and the Grace Murray Hopper Award? |
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| 1945, Nearly fifty years ago, an article appeared in the Atlantic Monthly entitled "As we may think". In that article the author predicted the PC, distributed databases, and hypertext. Who was the author of that article? |
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| Who is generally credited with creating the term "Virtual Reality?" |
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The last two letters in the names of many early computers were "AC", as in
ILLIAC or ENIAC. What did the letters "AC" stand for? |
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In the mid 1970s, one of the first real personal computers was introduced.
The computer was named after a destination visited by the space ship
Enterprise on the program "Star Trek". What was the name of that destination,
and that computer? |
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| Alan Perlis, for his work on development of ALGOL |
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| Who was the recipient of the first Turing Award? |
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Punch cards were initially developed in 1801 by a textile mill owner to
automate the patterns woven into cloth by his textile loom. What was the name
of the individual who first developed this application? |
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Who composed the Chinese room problem in an attempt to prove that computers
can't think? |
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| Who was Ada Lovelace's father? |
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| Who is credited with coining the term 'bit'? |
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| It means warning or check, from the game of Go |
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Atari is the name of a personal computer company, but it is also a word in
the Japanese language. What does Atari mean? |
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| Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
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For years, BASIC was one of the most commonly used programming languages
for personal computers. The word BASIC is an acronym. What do the letters
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| TRS-80, Commodore PET, Apple II |
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| Name three well-known PCs introduced in 1977. |
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| What game was designed for Atari by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976? |
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In 1971, the first home video game console was marketed using a patent
originally granted to Sanders Associates. The company that sold the game was Magnavox. What was the name of the game? |
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| Pioneering computer developed at Harvard |
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| Pioneering computer developed at Bletchley Park in England. |
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| FORTRAN, ALGOL, BASIC, PASCAL |
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Place the following programming languages in chronological order
with regard to their first introduction to the computing public: BASIC, ALGOL, Pascal, FORTRAN |
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| IDENTIFICATION, ENVIRONMENT, DATA, PROCEDURE |
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| What are the 4 major divisions in a COBOL program? |
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Which computer pioneer was also a Rear Admiral of the U.S.
Navy? |
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| In the classic text-adventure computer game Zork, you are occasionally told, ''It is pitch black.'' What happens next? |
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| What was the first home computer with a 16-bit processor? |
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| Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, in Japan in the 1990s. |
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| Who created the Ruby programming language? |
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