Ask yourself, "Can I intelligently discuss any of the following ideas?"

Architecture

This is a great architecture overview.

Languages

The languages I am focusing on in decreasing order of importance are

• Java
  • general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, and object-oriented, and is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere".
• HTML
  • the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. It allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of "tags" surrounded by angle brackets within the web page content. It can embed scripts in languages such as JavaScript which affect the behavior of HTML webpages. HTML can also be used to include Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define the appearance and layout of text and other material. The W3C, maintainer of both HTML and CSS standards, encourages the use of CSS over explicit presentational markup.
• Python
  • a general-purpose high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python supports multiple programming paradigms, primarily but not limited to object oriented, imperative and, to a lesser extent, functional programming styles. It features a fully dynamic type system and automatic memory management, similar to that of Scheme, Ruby, Perl, and Tcl. Like other dynamic languages, Python is often used as a scripting language, but is also used in a wide range of non-scripting contexts.
• ActionScript
  • used primarily for the development of websites and software targetting the Adobe Flash Player platform, used on Web pages in the form of embedded SWF files. ActionScript 3.0 has a similar syntax to ActionScript 2.0 but a different set of APIs for creating objects.
• C++
  • a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a "middle-level" language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C programming language and originally named C with Classes. It was renamed C++ in 1983. It is also used for hardware design, where design is initially described in C++, then analyzed, architecturally constrained, and scheduled to create a register transfer level hardware description language via high-level synthesis.
• MATLAB
  • Matrix Laboratory written in C. Libraries written in Java, ActiveX or .NET can be directly called from MATLAB and many MATLAB libraries (for example XML or SQL support) are implemented as wrappers around Java or ActiveX libraries.
• C#
  • a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines.
• Javascript
  • an implementation of the ECMAScript language standard and is typically used to enable programmatic access to computational objects within a host environment.
• Fortran 90
  • a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
• C
  • an imperative (procedural) systems implementation language. It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support. C was therefore useful for many applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language.
• Mathematica
  • A friendly workhorse
• Maple
  • Practical Symbolic Manipulations