Group Discussion
“Favorite Christmas Song” DISC: This popular Christmas song was the favorite in all 3 CS sections this year.
What is ‘Last Christmas’?
Name 2 different kinds of iterative loops.
What are for & while loops?
>>> print "hey there"
What is SyntaxError (or missing parentheses)?
This Game of Hog rule stated: "If any of the dice outcomes is a 1, the current player's score for the turn is 1." :(
What is Sow Sad?
This is the date when Christmas Break officially begins (i.e. the first non-finals day).
What is (Friday) December 20?
“Favorite Animes” DISC: This very strange show is Mrs. V.’s favorite anime.
What is ‘Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure’?
Name the 3 main built-in HOFs in Python (that we covered in Unit 2).
What are: map, filter, & reduce?
>>> 5 and -11 and 1/0
What is ZeroDivisionError (or division by 0)?
In the Yelp Maps project, we used this data structure which features key-values pairs.
What is a dictionary?
Many people argue about whether or not this action movie is a Christmas movie or not. (It's also Mrs. V.'s favorite Christmas movie...)
What is "Die Hard"?
“Gift Wrap” DISC: Summarize the results of this discussion from your section.
(P1) What is “More people like to receive wrapped gifts & more people like to give presents in gift bags”?
(P7) What is “More people prefer gift wrap for both giving and receiving”?
Name the 3 key characteristics used to describe a function (hint: related to input & output).
What are: domain, range, and behavior?
>>> x = 3
>>> y = 2
>>> x + Y
What is NameError (or name 'Y' is not defined)?
Besides Logistics & References, these are 3 of the research areas from the Internet Innovation Project.
What are: (any 3) Computational Artifact, Beneficial/Harmful Effects, Data Concerns, Computing Bias, & Legal/Ethical Concerns?
This many ghosts appear to Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol."
What is four?
(1. his former business partner, Jacob Marley, 2. the Ghost of Christmas Past, 3. the Ghost of Christmas Present, and 4. the Ghost of Christmas Future.)
“Mnemonic Device” DISC: This was the first place mnemonic device for remembering the 7 layers of the internet in your section.
(P1) What is “After Party Starts Tonight Near Duck Pond.”?
(P7) What is “Amazing people smile to never display pain.”?
Name the 4 main programming algorithms (from CS PANDA & covered at the start of the year)!
What are: Sequencing, Iteration, Selection, & Recursion?
>>> numLst = [1, 2, 3]
>>> numLst[len(numLst)]
What is IndexError (or list index out of range)?
In the Game of Hog project, this rule states that: "A player who chooses to roll zero dice scores the nth digit of the decimal expansion of 1/7 (0.14285714...), where n is the opponent's score."
What is Picky Piggy?
In "Home Alone," this is the city where the McCallisters go on vacation when they leave Kevin behind.
What is Paris, France?
“New Name for Earth” DISC: If your section was chosen to rename the Earth, this is the name they would pick and this is the name of the person who suggested it.
(P1) What is ‘Earth (really long specific number)” by Alex?
(P7) What is ‘Earth without the E’ by Arth?
Name the 7 layers of the internet, from lowest layer to highest layer.
What are: Physical, Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, & Application?
>>> max("hello", 3)
What is TypeError ('>' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'str')?
In the Yelp Maps project, this type of machine learning used the k-means algorithm.
What is unsupervised (learning)?
Complete the lyrics: "On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me... Twelve ___ ___, Eleven ___ ___, Ten ___ ___, Nine ___ ___, ..." (we're stopping there!)
What are ___?
(Twelve) drummers drumming
(Eleven) pipers piping
(Ten) lords a-leaping
(Nine) ladies dancing