It’s a new year which means companies are hiring and developers are interviewing. So we thought it would be fun to host a fun game of technical Jeopardy.

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Featuring

• Jake Dohm – Twitter, GitHub
• Emma Bostian – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Christopher Hiller – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Notes and Links

Here are some of the topics we covered which might be useful to know in a technical interview! You should never have to define any of these things but knowing their concepts and how they work will help you land a job!

CSS

• Flexbox Froggy
• Flexbox Defense
• Polypane App
• Media queries
• Keyframes
• Specificity
• Selectors
• Pseudo classes / elements
• Pre-processors
• Combinators

HTML

• Aside
• DOCTYPE
• Meta tag
• iFrame
• Canvas

The Web

• HTTPS
• Cache
• Cookies
• TCP/IP

JavaScript

• Const, let, var
• Scope / hoisting
• Undefined, null
• Protoypes / the prototype chain
• Promises
• Higher-order functions
• Callback functions
• Closures
• Map
• Set
• Event bubbling / delegation
• Functional programming
• Strict mode
• Prevent default
• Type of / instance of

Miscellaneous

• Stack overflow
• WAI-ARIA & accessibility
• XSS attacks / security breaches
• SEO

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