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This board helps players review Technical Jargons through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Coding Buzzwords, Network & Internet Lingo, Hardware & Systems Terms, Data & AI Jargon, Cybersecurity Slang. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Coding Buzzwords

    Step-by-step, language-agnostic instructions used to plan algorithms.

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    pseudocode

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  • Network & Internet Lingo

    Device that directs packets between different networks.

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    router

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  • Hardware & Systems Terms

    Volatile memory where programs keep working data.

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    RAM

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  • Data & AI Jargon

    Structured data model of rows and columns linked by keys.

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    relational database

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  • Cybersecurity Slang

    Time-limited code generated to verify a user login.

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    OTP

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Coding Buzzwords

$100 — Step-by-step, language-agnostic instructions used to plan algorithms.
pseudocode
$200 — A function that calls itself to solve smaller subproblems.
recursion
$300 — Compilation technique that translates code at runtime for speed.
JIT compilation
$400 — A function plus its captured lexical environment in JavaScript and beyond.
closure
$500 — Paradigm emphasizing pure functions and immutable data.
functional programming

Network & Internet Lingo

$100 — Device that directs packets between different networks.
router
$200 — Protocol that hands out IP addresses automatically.
DHCP
$300 — Secure version of HTTP using TLS for encryption.
HTTPS
$400 — Distributed system that caches content near users for faster delivery.
CDN
$500 — TCP’s SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK sequence to start a connection.
three-way handshake

Hardware & Systems Terms

$100 — Volatile memory where programs keep working data.
RAM
$200 — Core software layer that schedules processes and manages devices.
operating system
$300 — OS-level isolation packaging apps with their dependencies.
containers
$400 — CPU performance technique that overlaps stages of instruction execution.
pipelining
$500 — Scheduler-driven mechanism that swaps CPU time among tasks.
context switching

Data & AI Jargon

$100 — Structured data model of rows and columns linked by keys.
relational database
$200 — Crafting inputs and transformations to help models learn.
feature engineering
$300 — Regularization technique that randomly disables neurons during training.
dropout
$400 — Weight-updating method driven by gradients from the loss.
backpropagation
$500 — Dimensionality reduction using orthogonal linear combinations.
principal component analysis

Cybersecurity Slang

$100 — Time-limited code generated to verify a user login.
OTP
$200 — Deceptive emails that trick users into revealing credentials.
phishing
$300 — Vulnerability exploited before a fix is available.
zero-day
$400 — Attack that overwhelms services with distributed traffic.
DDoS
$500 — Intruder’s technique of moving within a network to new targets.
lateral movement

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