Final 3

Question 1

Trivia: What was ANOTHER song used for loops, specifically circular?

Answer 1

“Will It Go Around in Circles” - Billy Preston

Question 2

What is an iterable?

Answer 2

It’s similar to a list, which a range function will iterate through up to a specified point

Question 3

What is range(0,5) going through in the iterable?

Answer 3

0, 1, 2, 3, 4

Question 4

What is range(5) going through in the iterable?

Answer 4

0, 1, 2, 3, 4
(if only one parameter is given for range, it is assumed that the first parameter is 0 and the one given is the second)

Question 5

What is range(2,5) going through in the iterable?

Answer 5

2, 3, 4

Question 6

Trivia: TV show that relates robustness to Santa Claus?

Answer 6

Johnny Carson - “Safe Santa has a velcro lap so your kid can’t fall off and hurt himself”

Question 7

What is the first index of a list?

Answer 7

0

Question 8

Trivia: What song was used to emphasize the point that the first index of a list is 0?

Answer 8

Imagine Dragons - “Zero”

Question 9

What is used to convert one type of data into another?

Answer 9

cast

Question 10

Trivia: What song was used to emphasize why the variables i, j, k, etc are used as counters in loops?

Answer 10

Bruce Hornsby - “The Way It Is”

Question 11

Preferred method for printing out every index in the list “alist”

Answer 11

for i in range(len(alist)):
print(alist[i])

Question 12

Trivia: Clip used as a reference to Python’s “Dark Side” (unintuitive, non-common sense way that changing i in a loop doesn’t work the way you expect it to)

Answer 12

John MacEnroe screaming “You cannot be serious” during a tennis match

Question 13

What is a function argument?

Answer 13

A value or variable sent into the function

Question 14

What is a function parameter?

Answer 14

The arguments the function will accept

Question 15

Trivia: What was used as a reference for changing all the items in a list of sodas into Coke?

Answer 15

1971 Coke Commerical - “Hilltop”
“I’d like to buy the world a Coke”