Chapter 5 Conditionals and Recursion

Question 1

Floor Divison

Answer 1

An operator, denoted //, that divides two numbers and round down (toward negative infinity) to an integer

Question 2

Modulus Operator

Answer 2

An operator, denoted with a percent sign (%), that works on integers and returns the remainder when one number is divided by another.

Question 3

Boolean Expression

Answer 3

An expression whose value is either True or False.

Question 4

Relational Operator

Answer 4

One of the operators that compares its operands:==, !=, >, <, >= and <=.

Question 5

Logical Operator

Answer 5

One of the operators that combines boolean expressions: and, or and not.

Question 6

Conditional Statement

Answer 6

A statement that controls the flow of execution depending on some condition.

Question 7

Condition

Answer 7

The boolean expression in a conditional statement that determines which branch runs.

Question 8

Compound Statement

Answer 8

A statement that consists of a header and a body. The header ends with a colon (:). The body is indented relative to the header.

Question 9

Branch

Answer 9

One of the alternative sequences of statements in a conditional statement.

Question 10

Chained Conditional

Answer 10

A conditional statement with a series of alternative branches.

Question 11

Nested Conditional

Answer 11

A conditional statement that appears in one of the branches of another conditional statement.

Question 12

Return Statement

Answer 12

A statement that causes a function to end immediately and return to the caller.

Question 13

Recursion

Answer 13

The process of calling the function that is currently executing.

Question 14

Base case

Answer 14

A conditional branch in a recursive function that does not make a recursive call.

Question 15

Infinite Recursion

Answer 15

A recursion that does not have a base case, or never reaches it. Eventually, an infinite recursion causes a runtime error.