IST Python Unit 1 Review

Hardware/Software

100

An electronic device consisting of hardware and software

What is a computer?

200

This form of memory serves as a fast, short-term memory

What is main memory?

300

Computer memory uses this base 2 number system 

What is binary?

400

This software component helps to run code by 

1. checking the code for mistakes

2. translating the code to machine language

3. running the commands

What is the compiler?

500

This software component controls the computer memory

What is the operating system?

Using Python

100

This Python feature is ignored by the compiler and begins with a "#"

What is a comment?

200

Variables names in Python typically begin with this type of letter

What is lowercase?

300

This allows users to write, run, and debug programs all within one application and may also be called the "programming environment"

What is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)?

400

The biggest downside of this process is that some information may be lost when converting from analog to digital.

What is digitization?

500

Variables cannot begin with a number or punctuation, but they cannot contain this character at all

What is a space?

Print and Input

100

To print out a \ or " character, you need to write the character in a print statement with this special character in front of it

What is \?

200

Use this escape sequence in print() to put a tab/extra spaces in your output

what is \t?

300

This escape sequence creates a new line and is the default ending of every print() statement

What is \n?

400

When you join two strings together using a plus sign

Ex: print("Hello" + "World") --> "HelloWorld"

What is concatenation?

500

When the user types a response to the input() command, their response is saved as what data type?

What is a string?

Data Types

100

This data type can be used to store words

What is a string?

200

Strings and numbers encompass the majority of data and are a basic example of this

What is a data type?

300

This command is used to change a number into an string

What is str()?

400

This command is used to change a string into an integer

What is int()?

500

Running the code below will output this

print("Data is currently: " + 8)

What is an error?

Input/Output Devices

100

The computer delivers information to the user using this

What is an output device?

200

The user sends information to the computer using this

What is an input device?

300

This input device captures pictures that can then be viewed on an output device such as a screen

What is a camera?

400

Vibrations from your phone are an example of this

What is output?

500

This output device delivers sound to users by converting electrical audio signal

What are speakers?