Programming Concepts 005 A

Question 1

What does this output?

def character(**kwargs):
print(f”{kwargs[“name”]}”)
print(f”{kwargs[“weapon”]}”)
print(f”{kwargs[“health”]}”)

character(name=”Owen”,
weapon=”Sword”,
health=75)

Answer 1

Owen
Sword
75

Question 2

What do keyword arguments do?

Answer 2

Using a keyword argument allows for the user to specify different variables to be used in the function.

Question 3

How does linear search work?

Answer 3

It works by looping through the list iteratively and checking each value to see if the specified value exists.

Question 4

What is the main limitation of binary search?

Answer 4

It requires the dataset you are using to be sorted.

Question 5

What is this an example of?

def bin_search(items, target):
low = 0
high = len(items) - 1

while low <= high:
    mid = (low + high) // 2
    if items[mid] == target:
        return True  
    elif items[mid] < target:
        low = mid + 1
    else:
        high = mid - 1

return False

Answer 5

Binary search