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 – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

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

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Do you want JavaScript again or more JavaScript? 58:50 Share

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Do you want JavaScript again or more JavaScript?