Test 1

Question 1

What is a Robot?

Answer 1

A device with two types of agency:

1. Mental agency - ability to do stuff
2. Physical agency - ability to move

Question 2

What is the “modulus” function?

Answer 2

%

Displays the remainder

Question 3

What is Brute Force?

Answer 3

Trying every possible combination till something works.

Question 4

What is an algorithim?

Answer 4

A very specific set of instructions to complete a task. Accounts for every possiblity and will always result in an answer.

Question 5

Who is the father of modern computer science?

Answer 5

Alan Turing

Question 6

What is proprioception?

Answer 6

Sensing from within. Internal sensory mechanisms.

Question 7

What is dead reckoning?

Answer 7

An example of internal sensing in robots. The measurement of movement relative to the robot’s internal frame of reference.

Question 8

What does a proximity sensor do?

Answer 8

Detects the distance to an object or an obstacle. Can use different technologies: Infrared light, sonar, or laser.

Question 9

What three internal sensory mechanisms does the Scribbler have?

Answer 9

Stall, time, and battery level

Question 10

What does random() do?

Answer 10

Returns a random floating point between 0.0 and 1.0

Question 11

What does randinit(A, B) do?

Answer 11

Returns a random int in the range [A…B]

Question 12

What is programming?

Answer 12

specifying in advance a set of tasks for a computer to perform

Question 13

Why is it difficult to make the Scribbler go in a straight line?

Answer 13

Because the two motors that control the robot’s movements work independently of each other

Question 14

What is a function?

Answer 14

Convenient way to package a series of commands into a brand new command

Question 15

What is invocation?

Answer 15

Defining a new function

Question 16

What is a module?

Answer 16

File that contains a collection of functions

Question 17

What is the basic syntax for defining a Python function?

Answer 17

All lines that make up the definition should be indented (aligned) the same amount

def <function>(<parameters>):</parameters></function>

 <something></something>

 .....

 <something></something>