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Introduction to Programming Final ExamReview (Python) questions well
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A ________ does not prevent the program from running, but causes it to produce incorrect result -
correct answer ✔✔Syntax Error
A ______ is sequence of characters - correct answer ✔✔String
A ____ is a name that references a value in the computer's memory - correct answer ✔✔Variable
A _____ in python must be enclosed in either single or double-quotes - correct answer ✔✔String Literal
Short notes placed in different parts of a program explaining how these parts of the program work are
called - correct answer ✔✔Comments
A(n) ______ makes a variable reference a value in the computer's memory - correct answer
✔✔Assignment Statement
The ___ symbol marks the beginning of a comment in python - correct answer ✔✔#
Values on the right and left of an operator symbol (+) are called: - correct answer ✔✔Operands
______ can be used to read input that has been typed on the keyboard - correct answer ✔✔input()
having float(aroundSomething) - correct answer ✔✔converts to a float
A magic number is an: - correct answer ✔✔unexplained value that appears in a program's code
,A _____ is a name that represents a value that does not change during the program's execution - correct
answer ✔✔Named Constant
First characters of a variable names: - correct answer ✔✔cannot be a number
If a variable has not been assigned a value - correct answer ✔✔0 will not display since the variable was
not assigned 0 to begin with
A _____ can execute a set of statements only certain circumstances - correct answer ✔✔Decision
Structure
A ____ provides one alternative path of executions - correct answer ✔✔Single Alternative Decision
Boolean has a value of either - correct answer ✔✔True or False
A compound boolean expression created with the "or" operator is true if: - correct answer ✔✔Either of
its sub-expressions are true
A ____ can be nested inside another decision structure - correct answer ✔✔Decision structure
A compound boolean expression created with the "and" operator is true only when: - correct answer
✔✔Both sub-expression sare true
The while loop is a ___ type of loop - correct answer ✔✔Pretest
An ____ loop has no way of ending and repeats until the program is interrupted - correct answer
✔✔Infinite Loop
The -= operator is an example of a(n) _______ - correct answer ✔✔augmented assignment operator
, A(n) ______ is a special value that signals when there are no more items from a list of items to be
processed. This value cannot be mistaken as an item from the list - correct answer ✔✔sentinel
It is _____ that a condition-controlled loop always repeats a specific number of times - correct answer
✔✔false
x= x-1 does? - correct answer ✔✔subtracts 1 from x
It is necessary to initialize ______ - correct answer ✔✔accumulator variables
In a ________, the inner loop goes through all of its iterations for every single iteration of the outer loop
- correct answer ✔✔nested loop
To calculate the total number of iterations of a nested loop, you ____ the number of iterations of all the
loops - correct answer ✔✔multiply
Design technique that helps to reduce the duplication of code within a program and is a benefit of using
functions is _____ - correct answer ✔✔code reuse
The first line of a function definition is known as the _____ - correct answer ✔✔header
You ____ a function to execute it - correct answer ✔✔call
A ______ is a variable that is created inside a function - correct answer ✔✔local variable
A(n) ____ is the part of a program in which a variable may be accessed - correct answer ✔✔Scope
A(n) _______ is a piece of data that is sent into a function - correct answer ✔✔argument
A(n) ______ is a special variable that receives a piece of data when a function is called - correct answer
✔✔parameter
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