Example Code

Question 1

How do you do whole number division?

Answer 1

answer = num1 // num2

Question 2

How do you do a line break?

Answer 2

\n

Question 3

How to find the length of a variable

Answer 3

len(word)

Question 4

Removes extra characters (in this case spaces) from the start and end of a string

Answer 4

text = “ This is some text. ”
print(text.strip(“ ”))

Question 5

How to display certain letters in a word?

Answer 5

print (“Hello world”[7:10])

Question 6

Changes the string into upper case.

Answer 6

word.upper()

Question 7

Changes the string into lower case.

Answer 7

word.lower()

Question 8

Changes a phrase so that every word has a capital letter at the beginning with the rest of the letters in the word in lower case

Answer 8

word.title()

Question 9

To the power of

Answer 9

**

Question 10

When using some math code what do we need to have at the start of the program?

Answer 10

import math

Question 11

The square root of a number

Answer 11

math.sqrt(num)
but you must have the line import math

Question 12

Gives you pi (π) to 15 decimal places

Answer 12

math.pi
you must have the line import math

Question 13

Finds the remainder

Answer 13

x % y

Question 14

Count up from 1 to 9

Answer 14

for i in range(1,10):
print(i)

Question 15

counts up from 1 to 9 in 2s

Answer 15

for i in range(1,10,2):
print(i)

Question 16

Counts down from 10 to 1 in 3s

Answer 16

for i in range(10,1,-3):
print(i)

Question 17

Prints every letter of a variable on each line

Answer 17

for i in word:
print(i)

Question 18

Not equal to

Answer 18

!=

Question 19

What should you write at the top when starting to write code that uses random

Answer 19

import random

Question 20

Selects a random floating-point number between 0 and 1 and stores it in a variable called “num”

Answer 20

num = random.random()

Question 21

Selects a random whole number between 0 and 9 (inclusive)

Answer 21

num = random.randint(0,9)

Question 22

Picks a random value from the options “red”, “black” or “green” and stores it as the variable “colour”

Answer 22

colour = random.choice([“red”,“black”,“green”])

Question 23

Picks a random number between the numbers 0 and 100 (inclusive) in steps of five

Answer 23

num = random.randrange(0,100,5)

Question 24

Creates a variable name called “fruit_tuple” which stores four pieces of fruit within it

Answer 24

fruit_tuple = (“apple”,“banana”,“strawberry”,“orange”)

Question 25

Displays the index (i.e. the numeric key) of the item “strawberry”

Answer 25

print(fruit_tuple.index(“strawberry”))

Question 26

Displays item 2 from “fruit_tuple”, in this case “strawberry”.

Answer 26

print(fruit_tuple[2])

Question 27

Creates a list of the names and stores them in the variable “names_list”

Answer 27

names_list = [“John”,“Tim”,“Sam”]

Question 28

Deletes item 1 from “names_list”

Answer 28

del names_list[1]

Question 29

Asks the user to enter a name and will add that to the end of “names_list”.

Answer 29

names_list.append(input(“Add a name: “))

Question 30

Sorts name_list into alphabetical order and saves the list in the new order.

Answer 30

names_list.sort()

Question 31

Displays names_list in alphabetical order but does not change the order of the original list, which is still saved in the original order.

Answer 31

print(sorted(names_list))

Question 32

Creates a dictionary called “colours”, where each item is assigned an index of your choosing.

Answer 32

colours = {1:“red”,2:“blue”,3:“green”}

Question 33

Makes a change to the data stored in position 2 of the colours dictionary. In this case it will change “blue” to “yellow”.

Answer 33

colours[2] = “yellow”

Question 34

Displays the length of the list (i.e. how many items are in the list).

Answer 34

print(len(x))

Question 35

This will display data in positions 1, 2 and 3.

Answer 35

print(x[1:4])

Question 36

print the items in a list on separate lines.

Answer 36

for i in x:
print(i)

Question 37

Inserts the number 420 into position 2 and pushes everything else along to make space

Answer 37

x.insert(2,420)

Question 38

Deletes an item from the list.

Answer 38

x.remove(892)

Question 39

Adds the number 993 to the end of the list.

Answer 39

x.append(993)

Question 40

If their input is fully CAPS

Answer 40

if msg.isupper()

Question 41

If their input is fully lower

Answer 41

if msg.islower()