General terms for programming

Question 1

What is a type?

Answer 1

A general term to determine the kind of value you’re using.

Question 2

Give examples of types?

Answer 2

Strings, booleans, integers, characters, floating point numbers

Question 3

What does an integer represent?

Answer 3

A whole number

Question 4

What does floating point represent?

Answer 4

A number with fractional parts

Question 5

What is a string?

Answer 5

A sequence of characters

Question 6

What characterises a boolean expression?

Answer 6

It is either true or fale

Question 7

True and False are special in what way?

Answer 7

They are their own special values that belong to type Bool

Question 8

= is what?

Answer 8

An assignment operator

Question 9

== is what?

Answer 9

relational operator to determine if the object to the left has the same value as the object to the right

Question 10

what are the three logical operators

Answer 10

and, or, not

Question 11

What do conditional statements allow?

Answer 11

Code blocks can be executed depending on certain scenarios

Question 12

A header (if) followed by a block of code is what kidn of statement?

Answer 12

A compound statement

Question 13

Alternatives (if, else) can be described as being…

Answer 13

branches

Question 14

Multiple if statements in the form of elif can be described as being…

Answer 14

chained conditions

Question 15

An if statement with another if statement is what?

Answer 15

Nested

Question 16

What would you add to a Python print statement to keep the printing on one line

Answer 16

print(“the thing you want to print” ,end=” “)