Quiz 2 Study Guide

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You are responsible for all material covered through the end of Week 3.

In addition to all concepts from Quiz 1, you should understand the following:

Terms

  • data types: integer, float, string, Boolean

  • branching and looping

  • the accumulator design pattern

  • string indexing

Python concepts and functions

  • basic for loops

  • range()

  • basic arithmetic expressions using +, -, *, /, //, **, %

  • conversion between the int, float, and str types

  • the empty string ""

  • string concatenation with +, string repetition with *

  • string indexing with []

  • for loops over strings

  • len()

  • tracing a program (show the output)

  • if, if/else, if/elif/else

  • the relational Boolean operators <, <=, ==, >, >=, !=

  • the logical Boolean operators and, or, and not

  • nested statements (e.g., nested if statements, if/else in a loop, etc.)

  • string/print formatting

  • accumulator pattern using string, float, or integer variables

Sample practice problems

  1. Show the output from the following code fragments:

    for x in range(6):
      print(x, x**2)
print("done!")
    text = "hello!"
for i in range(len(text)):
      print("-" + text[i] + "-")

  2. Given these assignments:

    x = 5
y = 13
S = "we love computer science"
Done = False
    Show the value and type of each expression below:
    x < 10 and y < 10
x < 10 or y < 10
x < 10 and x > 0
x > 10 or x < 0
(5/x) > 7.0
len(S) >= 10
S[0] < S[1]
not Done

  3. Consider the following program

    x = 3
print("%d  %d" % (0, x))
for i in range(5):
    if x % 2 == 0:
        x = x // 2
    else:
        x = ( 3*x + 1 ) // 2
    print("%d  %d" % (i, x))
    .. Trace the program and show its output.
.. Create a table having columns for `i`, and `x` and show
how the values change as the loop executes.

  4. Write a program that asks the user how many grades they want to average, prompts the user for those grades, and prints the average.

    Enter number of grades to average: 5

Enter grade: 96
Enter grade: 86
Enter grade: 76
Enter grade: 66
Enter grade: 56

Average is: 76.0

  5. Write a program that asks the user for a word, and then uses an accumulator to print out the word with all lowercase "e"s changed to uppercase "E"s.

    Enter a word: repetitive

rEpEtitivE