Final Exams: Chapter 1 and 2

Question 1

What is a variable?

Answer 1

It store data to a name

Question 2

What is an integer (int)

Answer 2

Interpret the users input as a number

Question 3

What is a while loop

Answer 3

A while loop continues to run the code until and input changes (ie no)

Question 4

What does == mean

Answer 4

Equal to

Question 5

What does != mean

Answer 5

Not Equal to

Question 6

What does “from random import randint” mean

Answer 6

It tells the program to import the function randint

Question 7

What an Assignment

Answer 7

It set a name to a value

Question 8

What is a =

Answer 8

Assignment opperator

Question 9

What is a print( )

Answer 9

It displays a message screen

Question 10

What is a input( )

Answer 10

Gets and returns a users value

Question 11

What is a int( )

Answer 11

Converts characters into numbers

Question 12

What is ranint( )

Answer 12

produces a random number

Question 13

What is a string

Answer 13

A series of characters

Question 14

What is a substring

Answer 14

It is a sequence of characters contained with a another string

Question 15

In the statement “print(msg.upper)))” what does the dot mean

Answer 15

The dot means “call the method on the specified variable

Question 16

In the statement “print(msg.upper)))” what does upper() mean

Answer 16

The upper means is a string method

Question 17

What does text.endswith(“.jpg”) mean

Answer 17

Return the value True if the string has the given substring at the end.

Question 18

What does text.upper() mean

Answer 18

Return a copy of the string converted to uppercase.

Question 19

What does text.lower(): mean

Answer 19

Return a copy of the string converted to lowercase.

Question 20

text.replace(“tomorrow”, “Tuesday”): mean

Answer 20

Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of one substring replaced by another.

Question 21

What does “text.strip():” mean

Answer 21

Return a copy of the string with the leading and trailing whitespace removed.

Question 22

What does text.find(“python”): mean

Answer 22

Return the first index value when the given substring is found.

Question 23

What does text.startswith(“” mean

Answer 23

Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of one substring replaced by another.

Question 24

What does the find( ) method mean

Answer 24

finds the starting position of a substring

Question 25

What is a float

Answer 25

It converts whole number into a decimal number

Question 26

what does import urllib.request mean

Answer 26

use code stored in the “urllib.request” library.

Question 27

What are strings?

Answer 27

Sequences of individual characters.

Question 28

Individual string characters are referenced by?

Answer 28

Index

Question 29

Index values are offsets that start from?

Answer 29

0 (Zero)

Question 30

Methods provide variables with?

Answer 30

built-in functionality

Question 31

Programming libraries provide a collection of

Answer 31

related pre-built code and functions.

Question 32

Number is a

Answer 32

Data Type

Question 33

String is

Answer 33

Data Type

Question 34

s[4]

Answer 34

access the 5th character of the variable “s”, which is a string

Question 35

s[6:12]

Answer 35

Searches from the 7th character of the variable to the 11 variable
access a sub-string within the string “s” (up to, but not including)

Question 36

s.find() method for

Answer 36

searching strings

Question 37

s.upper() method for

Answer 37

converting strings to UPPERCASE

Question 38

float() converts strings to

Answer 38

Decimal point numbers known as “floats”

Question 39

What is the +

Answer 39

addition operator

Question 40

What is >

Answer 40

greater than operator

Question 41

urllib.request library for talking

Answer 41

to the web

Question 42

time library for working with

Answer 42

date/time