Chapter 1: Elements of a Program (Review Questions)¶

The questions below assume that you have read the first and the second part of Chapter 1.

Be concise in your answers! Most questions can be answered in one sentence.

Essay Questions¶

Q1: Elaborate on how modulo division might be a handy operation to know!

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Q2: What is a dynamically typed language? How does it differ from a statically typed language? What does that mean for Python?

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Q3: Why is it useful to start counting at $0$?

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Q4: What is operator overloading?

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Q5: What are the basic naming conventions for variables? What happens if a name collides with one of Python's keywords ?

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Q6: Advocates of the functional programming paradigm suggest not to use mutable data types in a program. What are the advantages of that approach? What might be a downside?

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True / False Questions¶

Motivate your answer with one short sentence!

Q7: "dunder" refers to a group of Australian (i.e., "down under") geeks that work on core Python.

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Q8: The Zen of Python talks about Indian genius programmers.

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Q9: When NASA famously converted some measurements to the wrong unit and lost a Mars satellite in 1999 (cf., source), this is an example of a so-called runtime error.

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Q10: PEP 8 suggests that developers use 8 spaces per level of indentation.

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