Final 5

Question 1

What is a Try statement?

Answer 1

A statement where you put code that might crash so that it will be encapsulated in an “try block” to output a custom error if it doesn’t work as intended

Question 2

Trivia: Try statement song reference to just being reckless with code

Answer 2

“Jump” - Van Halen

Question 3

Do dictionaries exist as a data type in Python?

Answer 3

Yes.

Question 4

Trivia: TV show reference for objects and connections

Answer 4

Avatar: The Last Airbender (“All Connected”

Question 5

Functions attached to objects are usually called:

Answer 5

Methods

Question 6

Trivia: In reference to door objects, what TV show was used?

Answer 6

Get Smart (Revolving Door Scene)

Question 7

What is inheritance?

Answer 7

When a variable of a certain object type inherits all the variables, functions/methods associated with it.

Question 8

What is polymorphism?

Answer 8

Conversion of methods to suit an appropriate output for the input.

Question 9

How do you initialize a variable of a given type or class?

Answer 9

With a constructor (or initializer method)

Question 10

What is an instance variable?

Answer 10

A variable of a particular class, i.e. “Daniel” is an instance variable of class “human”, just one particular object under that umbrella

Question 11

What is a class?

Answer 11

A particular “type” of object/variable you define, such as “human”

Question 12

What is a class variable?

Answer 12

A variable which pertains to a whole class of objects rather than a particular instance variable. “The number of human objects declared so far” refers to the whole class and not particular instances.

Question 13

What is an instance value?

Answer 13

A value which pertains to a particular object of a class, such as Daniel.height (height attribute of instance variable Daniel)

Question 14

What is Function __init__() ?

Answer 14

Interpreter assumes that if a function has this name formatting, it is to be used as the means of of initializing an object of this class