Basics/principles

Question 1

Variable

Answer 1

A container for a value, it behaves as the value it contains.

Question 2

Float

Answer 2

A number with a decimal portion

Question 3

Integer (Int)

Answer 3

A whole number

Question 4

Type

Answer 4

Can be used to identify the value type of a variable

Question 5

String or “str”

Answer 5

A series of letters

Question 6

Boolean

Answer 6

A value that is either “true” or “false”

Question 7

Multiple assignment

Answer 7

Allows you to give values to multiple variables in one line of code

Question 8

What is this line of code an example of?
Name, age, cool = “alex”, 15, True

Answer 8

This is an example of multiple assignment

Question 9

What is this an example of?
Alex = Dino = James = Rhea = “cool”

Answer 9

This is an example of multiple assignment.

Question 10

Type casting

Answer 10

Converting the data type of a value to another data type e.g from integer to string

Question 11

Input()

Answer 11

This allows for the user to give input

Question 12

What is this doing?
Name = input(“What is your name?”)

Answer 12

This is assigning the users input to the variable “Name”

Question 13

An absolute value

Answer 13

How far away a number is from 0

Question 14

Slicing

Answer 14

Creating a substring by extracting elements from another string

Question 15

Indexing[]

Answer 15

A form of slicing that uses square brackets

Question 16

Slice()

Answer 16

A form of slicing that uses brackets

Question 17

[start:stop:step]

Answer 17

3 optional arguments needed when slicing

Question 18

Slicing a string with the square brackets

Answer 18

Alex =“alex”
Print(alex[0:4:1])

Console:
Alex

Question 19

The start index

Answer 19

Defines where the variable will start.
(Inclusive)

Question 20

The stop index

Answer 20

Defines where the variable will end.
(Exclusive)

Question 21

The step index

Answer 21

Defines by how many places the variable is used
E.g

Name = “Alexander”

Print(Name[0:9:2]

Console:
lxne

Question 22

Difference between slice() and indexing[]

Answer 22

In slicing as an oppose to using colons to separate your indexes [start:stop:step]

You would use commas
(Start,stop,step)

And instead of using square brackets you would use normal brackets)

Question 23

If statement

Answer 23

A block of code that will only execute if it’s condition is true

Question 24

Hierarchy in (if , elif, else)

Answer 24

/\
| If
|
| Elif
|
| Else
\/

Question 25

Logical operators (and,or)

Answer 25

Used to check if two or more conditions are true

Question 26

The not operator

Answer 26

Changes a true value to false and a false value to true

Question 27

Assignment operator

Answer 27

=

Question 28

Equivalent operator

Answer 28

==

Question 29

The process of linking two different data with types

Answer 29

Concatenation

Question 30

IDE

Answer 30

Integrated development environment

Question 31

the difference between return and print()

Answer 31

A Python function without a return statement returns None

Question 32

What is “I” in a for loop

Answer 32

i or whatever character you choose to assign is a way to extract a value in a variable (“in variable” is referring to any variable)
“for x in variable:
print(x)”

This will print the value of x in the variable.

Question 33

Nested loops

Answer 33

A loop within a loop
The “inner loop” will finish all of it’s iterations before finishing one iteration of the”outer loop”

Question 34

Loop control statements

Answer 34

Changes a loops execution from its normal sequence.

Question 35

Break

Answer 35

Used to terminate the loop entirely

Question 36

Continue

Answer 36

Skips to the next iteration of the loop

Question 37

A module

Answer 37

A file containing a set of functions you want to use in your application. e.g “math”

Question 38

Pass

Answer 38

does nothing, acts as a placeholder

Question 39

Index operator[]

Answer 39

Gives access to a sequences elements

(Used in strings,lists,tuples but not limited to these three)