Trivia
- Guess the language: #10
IO.puts "Hello, world!"
Options: Erlang, Elixir, Julia, Kotlin
Use the following link to guess an answer, answer + results posted in 12 hours. (If you say the answer in the replies please put it in spoiler tags)
https://strawpoll.com/e2narP0olgB
- [TRV] Which of the following is regarded as the first commercially successful microcomputer?strawpoll.com Which of the following is regarded as the fir... - Online Poll - StrawPoll.com
What's your opinion? Vote now: TRS-80, Altair 8800, Commodore 64, Apple II...
Options: TRS-80, Altair 8800, Commodore 64, Apple II
Use the following link to guess an answer: https://strawpoll.com/e2narPLNzgB
If you say the answer in the replies please put it a spoiler tag
- Guess the Language: #9
``` import std.stdio;
void main() { writeln("Enter a number:"); int input; readf("%d", &input); writeln("Factorial:", factorial(input)); }
int factorial(int n) { if (n <= 1) return 1; return n * factorial(n - 1); } ```
Options: Vala, Crystal, D, Nim
Use the following link to guess an answer, answer + results posted in 12 hours. (If you say the answer in the replies please put it in spoiler tags)
https://strawpoll.com/Qrgebk7PKZp
- [TRV] What is the origin of the term "bug" in the context of computer programming?strawpoll.com What is the origin of the term "bug" in the c... - Online Poll - StrawPoll.com
What's your opinion? Vote now: It refers to a coding mistake that "bugs" the software., It was named after a character in an early computer game., It was inspired by the Latin word ...
Use the following link to guess an answer: https://strawpoll.com/w4nWrMRBdyA
You can discuss it below but if you say the answer put it in spoiler tags
- Guess the Language: #8
``` function isPalindrome(str) str = str:gsub('%s', ''):lower() return str == str:reverse() end
local input = "A man a plan a canal Panama" if isPalindrome(input) then print("It's a palindrome!") else print("It's not a palindrome.") end ```
Testing out a new voting system of using strawpoll so that vote totals can be hidden. A thing I noticed in some of the previous rounds was that people would pile on to the same option. Loses a bit of the ease of vote but shouldnt be too bad since you can just instantly vote after you go to the site
You can vote for what you think it is here: https://strawpoll.com/xVg7j6Q5Rnr
Voting ends in 12 hours and then ill post here with the results. You can talk about it below but if you want to talk about the correct answer put it in spoiler tags
- In lambda calculus, what's the significance of the "Church encoding"?
Answer revealed in ~ 12 hours, Upvote a comment below to vote
- What was the name of the first computer worm?
Answer revealed in ~12 hours. Upvote a comment below to vote
- Which programming language was originally named "Mocha"?
And the third trivia question of the day. Will be doing 3 questions every day, 1 about guessing the language, 1 about concepts, and 1 about history
The 4 options will be given in the comments and answer + results will be posted in ~ 12 hours
Feel free to also do your own trivia questions in the community if youve got any
- What programming language feature allows functions to be passed as arguments to other functions or returned as results from functions?
The 4 options will be given in the comments. Upvote the one you think is correct
Answer + how many people got it right will be posted in ~ 12 hours
- Guess the Language: #5
Back from a small break and doing some more programming trivia! Doing a bit of a different format this time as it was a bit hard to guess if you didnt know the names of a bunch of different programming languages by memory
There will be 4 options in the comments you can vote for. Just upvote the one that you think is the answer and ill post the answer + results ~ 12 hours after it started
For this question its just a simple hello world statement
- What was the name of the precursor to the C programming language?
Bonus points if you also know:
- How the language (allegedly) got it's name?
- Which operating system still leverages the language today?
- Guess the language: #3
And were up to the third language to guess! This one might be a bit harder for most people compared to the last two. Throw your guesses down below and ill reveal the answer in a day
- What programming language was originally called Oak before its current name?
Give your guesses below, answer will get posted in a day
- What was the first widely used programming language?
Welcome to the programming trivia community! This will be a spot where you can post questions related to the instance and others will have a chance to guess answers
Answers should be given in the comments around a day after the question was posted and do not look up answers on search engines if you are answering it. Just post a guess for what you think the answer is in the comments
Ill be doing daily questions (and will do some more today + tomorrow to start the community off) but feel free to post your own as well
To start off heres a history-related question, enjoy!