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  1. 01What does HTML stand for?
  2. 02The Python programming language is named after what?
  3. 03In programming, what is a bug?
  4. 04Which symbol ends most statements in C and Java?
  5. 05Git is best described as what kind of tool?
  6. 06What message does a programmer traditionally print in their very first program?
  7. 07Binary code is written using which two digits?
  8. 08Brendan Eich famously created JavaScript in about ten days for which browser company?
  9. 09Who created the Linux kernel in 1991?
  10. 10The first literal computer bug, taped into a 1947 logbook, was what?
  11. 11CSS is a language used mainly to do what?
  12. 12Before it was named Java, the language was originally called what?
  13. 13Stack Overflow is a famous website where programmers do what?
  14. 14Ada Lovelace is often celebrated as the first what?
  15. 15The name FORTRAN is short for what?
  16. 16Which Dutch programmer created Python?
  17. 17The Rust programming language grew out of a project at which company?
  18. 18The C programming language was created at Bell Labs by whom?

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