Python

Question 1

What is an interpreter?

Answer 1

Converts one statement at a time

Question 2

What is a compiler?

Answer 2

Converts all the statements at once

Question 3

What is an identifier?

Answer 3

A variable

Question 4

What are identifier rules?

Answer 4

Must start with a letter or an underscore
The rest can be letters, numbers or underscores
No other characters are permitted

Question 5

How to create your turtle in Python?

Answer 5

import turtle

leo = turtle.Turtle()
leo.shape(“turtle”)
leo.color(“blue”)

Question 6

How to move your turtle?

Answer 6

leo.forward(100)

Question 7

How to move in multiple directions?

Answer 7

leo.left(120) #This rotates the turtle 120 degrees to the left
leo.forward(100)

Question 8

How to fill an enclosed shape?

Answer 8

leo.fillcolor(“red”)
leo.begin_fill()
#write your turtle code here
leo.end_fill()

Question 9

Example of an if elif statement?

Answer 9

x = ”cat”
if x == ”dog”:
print(“x is a dog”)
elif x == ”pig”:
print(“x is a pig”)
elif x == ”cat”:
print(“x is a cat”)
else:
print(“x isn’t an animal”)

Question 10

How to use match statements?

Answer 10

sport = ”basketball”
match sport:
case ”basketball”:
print(“sport is basketball”)
case ”volleyball”:
print(“sport is volleyball”)
case ”rugby”:
print(“sport is rugby”)
case _:
print(“sport is not known”)

Question 11

How to enter name?

Answer 11

name = str(input(“Please enter your name:”))

Question 12

How to enter integer?

Answer 12

name = int(input(“Please enter your age:”))

Question 13

Example of a while statement?

Answer 13

x = 1
while x <=10:
print(x)
x += 1

Question 14

What is a list?

Answer 14

Instead of
x = 1
y = 2
z = 3
Use
x = [1, 2, 3]

Question 15

What is range?

Answer 15

Returns a series of outputs. First number is included but not last, eg range(11) would give [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Alternatively, range(1,10) lists numbers 1 to 9. Used in “for” loops

Question 16

Example of a “for” loop?

Answer 16

for x in range (1,6):
print(x)

Question 17

How to put text in “for” loops?

Answer 17

for x in [‘cat’, ‘dog’, ‘horse’]:
print(x)

Question 18

How to put a loop in a loop?

Answer 18

for num1 in range (1, 11):
for num2 in range (1, 11):
print(num1, “ + “, num2, “ = “,
num1 + num2)

Question 19

Using ‘for’ loops in turtle?

Answer 19

for x in range (4):
leo.forward(200)
leo.left(90)

Question 20

Using “while” loops in turtle?

Answer 20

x = 0
while (x < 3):
leo.forward(150)
leo.left(120)

Question 21

How to change Turtle width, change turtle colour and background colour?

Answer 21

turtle.color(“yellow”)
turtle.bgcolor(“black”)
turtle.width(“12”)

Question 22

Circle in turtle?

Answer 22

leo.circle(150)

Question 23

Functions?

Answer 23

def welcome_player():
name = input(“Enter a username: “) …

After all your code is done, call upon the function, like
welcome_player()

Question 24

How to return a certain letter of a certain word?

Answer 24

def print2(value):
print(value[1])
print2(“Superman”)

This will return “u”

Question 25

Slicing?

Answer 25

x = “Superman”
print(x[2:5])

Would return the string per

Question 26

Length of string?

Answer 26

len(“Fichy”)

would return “5”

Question 27

How to slice from the start?

Answer 27

X = “MrFich”
print(x[2:])

This would return “Fich”

Question 28

How to slice from the back?

Answer 28

x = “MrFich”
print(x[-2:])

This would return “ch”

Question 29

How to remove the start and end?

Answer 29

return str[1:len(str)-1]

Question 30

What is a list and how do you access a value of the list?

Answer 30

myList = [“Alpaca”, “Badger”, “Cat”, “Dog”]
Use myList[0] to get Alpaca
Use myList[-1] to get Dog

Question 31

How to use len() in a list?

Answer 31

len(myList)