Python

Question 1

What is a string variable?

Answer 1

A variable that contains words.

Question 2

How do you change a variable to an integer?

Answer 2

You put ‘variable = int(variable)’

Question 3

How do you write a conditional statement?

Answer 3

You use an if statement

Question 4

What does ‘len’ do?

Answer 4

It tells you how many characters there are in the variable

Question 5

How do you print something?

Answer 5

You use the function ‘print’

Question 6

How do you combine if and else?

Answer 6

Elif

Question 7

How do you get someone to input text?

Answer 7

You use the ‘input’ function

Question 8

What are the three types of variable?

Answer 8

String, Integer and Float

Question 9

What is an integer?

Answer 9

A number that doesn’t involve decimals.

Question 10

What is a float?

Answer 10

A number that does involve decimals.

Question 11

How do you start a new line?

Answer 11

Write \n.

Question 12

What is a syntax error?

Answer 12

An error in the code which means that the computer cannot carry out any of the code.

Question 13

What does ().upper do?

Answer 13

It makes all the characters in the string upper case.

Question 14

What are the comparations you can make in an if statement?

Answer 14

<=, >=, ==, !=

Question 15

How do you repeat actions in Python?

Answer 15

You can say
while this is true:
(closed loop)
or
for x in this array:
(open loop)