Quiz 1 Study Guide

You are responsible for all material needed for Lab 1, plus basic for loops from Week 2 (see below for examples). We will not be covering the accumulator pattern or indexing on this quiz. We will also not be testing you on Unix or vim information.

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Terms

You should understand the following terms:

  • syntax

  • semantics

  • algorithm

  • program

  • Python as a programming language

  • computer

  • variable

  • assignment

  • data types: int, float, str

Python concepts and functions

You should be able to use the following Python concepts and functions:

  • assignment using =

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

  • reading in strings using input()

  • int(), str(), float(), and type conversion

  • print()

  • def main():

  • basic for loops

  • string concatenation and string multiplication

  • basic accumulator pattern

  • string indexing

Sample practice problems

1) Write a program to convert a certain number of gallons (entered by the user) to liters. There are 3.79 liters in a gallon.

$ python gallons.py
Gallons: 2
That's 7.58 liters.

2a) What is the value and type for each of the following expressions? Try them in python3 to check your answers. For example, the answer to the first one (2 + 3) would be value 5 and type int.

  • 2 + 3

  • 2.0 + 3

  • 5 - 2 * 3

  • "123"

  • 2.0

  • "Swat" + "CS"

  • 7 // 2

  • 7 % 2

2b) What sequence of values does range(6) produce?

3) Write a program that takes a user’s hotel room rate and outputs the cost after adding the 10% city tourism fee. The program should then output the total bill.

$ python bill.py
Room rate: 100
Total nights: 3
-------------------
Tourism Fee: $ 30.0
Total: $ 330.0

4) Show the output from the following code fragments:

for i in range(4):
    print(i)
    print("--")
for x in range(6):
    print("x =", x)
print("done!")
n = 6
ch = "a"
for i in range(1, n+1):
    print(str(i) + " " + ch*i)
r = 0
n = 6
for i in range(n):
    r = r * i
    print(r)

5) Write a program that asks the user for their name and a number (n), then prints out their name n times.

$ python name.py
name: cs21
n: 6

cs21
cs21
cs21
cs21
cs21
cs21