Edited quiz questions.
--- a/quiz.tex Fri Oct 09 13:20:23 2009 +0530
+++ b/quiz.tex Fri Oct 09 16:55:01 2009 +0530
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@
% Title page
\title[Basic Python]{Python: Quiz}
-\author[FOSSEE Team] {FOSSEE Authors}
+\author[FOSSEE Team] {FOSSEE}
\institute[IIT Bombay] {Department of Aerospace Engineering\\IIT Bombay}
-\date[] {11, October 2009\\Day 1, Session 0}
+\date[] {11, October 2009\\Day 2, Session 0}
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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{}
- What is the biggest integer number that can be represented by Python?
+ What is the largest integer value that can be represented by Python?
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{}
@@ -77,59 +77,82 @@
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{}
- What is the difference between print x and print x, ?
+ What is the difference between \kwrd{print} \emph{x} and \kwrd{print} \emph{x,} ?
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{}
- A single line of CSV file should be separated into fields. What method would you use to achieve this?
+ A sample line from a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file:\\
+ \vspace*{0.2in}
+ \emph{Rossum, Guido, 42, 56, 34, 54}\\
+ \vspace*{0.2in}
+ What method would you use to separate the line into fields?
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{}
How many items can a function return?
\end{frame}
-\begin{frame}{}
- If function returns more than one item/object what is the return type of the function?
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{}
- Given a list a, what will its slice a[:-1] evaluate to?
+\begin{frame}[fragile]{}
+ \begin{lstlisting}
+ >>> a = [1, 2, 5, 9]
+ >>> a[:-1]
+ \end{lstlisting}
+ What is the output?
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{}
- How do you get a slice of the list where the slice has only alternate elements?
+ How do you get the alternate elements of a list?
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{}
- How do you combine 2 lists?
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{}
- How do you find the presence of a given element in the list?
+ How do you combine the two lists \emph{a} and \emph{b}?
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{}
- You are given a tuple a = (1, 2, 5, 7). What is the result of a[1] = 3?
+ How do you find the presence of an element \emph{x} in the list \emph{a}?
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}[fragile]{}
+ \begin{lstlisting}
+ >>> a = (1, 2, 5, 7)
+ >>> a[1]
+ \end{lstlisting}
+ What is the output?
\end{frame}
-\begin{frame}{}
- We use \kwrd{for} to loop through the elements of a list. What do we have to do if we want to iterate through the elements of a list as well as get the index of the elements of the list as we iterate through?
+\begin{frame}[fragile]{}
+ \begin{lstlisting}
+ for x in "abcd":
+ print x
+
+ a
+ b
+ c
+ d
+ \end{lstlisting}
+ How do you get the following output?
+ \begin{lstlisting}
+ 0 a
+ 1 b
+ 2 c
+ 3 d
+ \end{lstlisting}
+ by doing a small modification in the same two lines of code above?
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{}
- What is the difference between import math and from math import *?
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{}
- What can be the keys of a dictionary?
+ What can you use as the keys of a dictionary?
\end{frame}
-\begin{frame}{}
- What happens when you try to access a key in the dictionary that does not exist?
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{}
- How do you avoid such an exception?
+\begin{frame}[fragile]{}
+ \begin{lstlisting}
+ >>> d = {
+ 'a': 1,
+ 'b': 2
+ }
+ >>> print d['c']
+ \end{lstlisting}
+ What is the output?
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{}
@@ -138,8 +161,11 @@
\\all the values?
\end{frame}
-\begin{frame}{}
- What will the set contain when you create a set from a list containing duplicate elements?
+\begin{frame}[fragile]{}
+ \begin{lstlisting}
+ >>> set([1, 2, 8, 2, 13, 8, 9])
+ \end{lstlisting}
+ What is the output?
\end{frame}
\end{document}