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* Is this function valid (i.e. Python will not report an error if it finds it in our program)?
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::<source lang="python">
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def doNothing( a ):
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    return 1
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</source>
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* What is <tt>None</tt>?
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* Is this function valid?
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::<source lang="python">
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def doNothing2( a ):
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    return
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</source>
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* The output of this program is 7.  What did the user enter?
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::<source lang="python">
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def f1( a, b ):
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    return a - b
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x = eval( input( "> " ) )
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print( f1( x, 3 ) )
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</source>

Revision as of 20:00, 4 March 2018

D. Thiebaut (talk) 19:17, 4 March 2018 (EST)

Preparation

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Range

  • Is range a function?
  • How many parameters does it take?
  • What are they?
  • Can range crash if we give it incompatible parameters?
  • Can its parameters be variables? i.e. range( a, b, c)?
  • When is range() useful?

Lists

  • How are lists defined?
  • What different symbols are used to define lists?
  • Can we mix the symbols to open and close the list?
  • Can lists be empty? If so, give examples of empty lists.
  • Can list elements be of different types? Can a list element be another list?
  • Can list grow? How?
  • How can we replace the first element of a non-empty list with a different value?
  • How can we remove the first element of a non-empty list?
  • How can we remove the last element of a non-empty list?
  • How can we create a list that is the concatenation of two lists?

Strings

  • Are strings mutable?
  • is 
a = ""
a valid string?
  • How can we remove the first letter of a non-empty string?
  • How can we remove the last letter of a non-empty string?
  • How can we create the reverse of a string ("hello" --> "olleh")
  • How do we go from "The quick red fox" to [ "The", "quick", "red", "fox"]?
  • How do we go from " The quick red fox " to [ "The", "quick", "red", "fox"]?
  • How do we print the first word of a sentence, i.e. extract "Viva" from the string "Viva Fresh Pasta"?
  • Give the name of 5 string methods

Functions

  • Is this function valid (i.e. Python will not report an error if it finds it in our program)?
 def doNothing( a ):
     return 1
  • What is None?
  • Is this function valid?
 def doNothing2( a ):
     return
  • The output of this program is 7. What did the user enter?
def f1( a, b ):
    return a - b

x = eval( input( "> " ) )
print( f1( x, 3 ) )
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