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First Prize
£10 Amazon.co.uk gift card for each member of team
Second Prize
Smashing Magazine CSS bundle (3 eBooks)
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Programming & Development
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Question 1
If you add the two binary numbers 0111 and 0110, what is the decimal equivalent of the result?
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Question 2
What is the difference between array pop and push?
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Question 3
Can you determine the output of the very badly written piece of code provided?
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Question 4
According to craigslist.com, in 2011, most job posts required which programming language?
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Question 5
What does BASIC stand for?
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Question 6
Which programming language released version one first, PHP or Ruby?
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Question 7
This piece of code (next slide) was required for a first stage interview with a well known social network:
i. What is the name of the sorting algorithm used in sortMe($binaryNumbers)?
ii. In what order do the binary numbers appear in the variable $output at the end of execution?
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Question 7
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Question 8
What is the name of the person who originally founded PHP?
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Question 9
What letter option is used to 'invert the sense of matching' in the command line tool grep?
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Question 10
What is the highest value an unsigned 32-bit integer can store?
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The Google Interview
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Question 1
A parking spot is unoccupied 1/3 of the time, but, you find it empty for nine consecutive days in a row.
Find the probability that it will be empty on the tenth day.
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Question 2
A book has N pages, numbered the usual way, from 1 to N.
The total number of digits in the page numbers is 1,095.
How many pages does the book have?
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Question 3
A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?
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Question 4
10, 9, 60, 90, 70, 66,
What number comes next in the series?
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Question 5
When can you add 2 to 11 and get 1 as the correct answer?
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Question 6
I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?
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Question 7
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him under water for five minutes. Finally, she hangs him. Five minutes later they enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
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Question 8
I live above a star but never burn. I have 11 neighbours but they never turn. My initials are p, q, r and sometimes s. What am I?
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Question 9
I'm not the sort that's eaten, I'm not the sort you bake, don't put me in an oven, I don't taste that great, but when applied correctly, around me you will find, problems are so simple when my digits come to mind.
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Question 10
3 men are buried in the sand all facing the same way with only their heads above ground. Each man has a hat placed on his head which is either red or blue, but they can't see it. The men know that their hats were selected from a bag containing 3 red hats, and 2 blue hats. The man at the back (who can see the hats of the two men in front of him) is asked what hat he is wearing. He answers: "I don't know". The middle (who can see the hat of the man in front of him) man is asked what hat he is wearing. He also replies: "I don't know". Finally, the man at the front is asked what hat he is wearing. He answers: "I am wearing a red hat". How did he know?
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Geek News: Hot off the press
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Question 1
Olympic spectators at the London 2012 games were asked not to use their phones at the events.
Why?
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Question 2
A team from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) printed a colour photo, measuring just 50 micrometres across, the width of a human hair.
What was the photo of?
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Question 3
Who was the most mentioned athlete on Facebook during the whole of the Olympic Games?
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Question 4
Which image hosting service recently contributed to science when a new species of insect was identified in one of its posts?
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Question 5
Yahoo have employed Marissa Mayer as their new CEO.
According to Wired.co.uk, she should take one simple action if she wants the company to succeed. What is it?
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Question 6
US TV broadcaster NBC were at the centre of controversy recently after it persuaded Twitter to suspend journalist Guy Adams for a message he posted during the Opening Ceremony. In a statement, NBC said: "We filed a complaint with Twitter because a user tweeted the personal information of one of our executives."
Who was the executive in question?
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Question 7
Microsoft recently revealed they are axing their web-based email service Hotmail after 16 years of business.
What are they replacing it with?
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Question 8
The Japanese recently unveiled a giant robot at the Wonder Festival in Tokyo. Kuratas is 4m high, weighs 4.5 tonnes and is capable of firing 100 rounds a second – or even working as a cleaner or firefighter. It can be controlled in 2 ways. The first is a human pilot in a mid-torso cockpit. What is the second?
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Question 9
Nintendo Wii have announced they are to release an exclusive new game that will give players the chance to sing, dance and even duet with world-renowned musical theatre stars in some of their favourite musicals. But which famous composer is the star of the game?
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Question 10
Apple have recently been granted a patent for a Smart Cover with an integrated display.
What revolutionary new way could it be powered?
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