fundamentals-of-python

Working through the exercises in Fundamentals of Python

scope

Team effort of colleagues to go through the book Fundamentals of Python in a timely manner. We gather each Monday to discuss weekly material and Friday is code review / Q&A day!

status

• Chapter 1 - The Context of Software Development
• Chapter 2 - Values and Variables
• Chapter 3 - Expressions and Arithmetic
• Chapter 4 - Conditional Execution
• Chapter 5 - Iteration
• Capter 6 - Using Functions
• Chapter 7 - Writing Functikkkons
• Chapter 8 - More on Functions
• Chapter 9 - Objects
• Chapter 10 - Lists
• Chapter 11 - Tuples, Dictionaries, and Sets
• Chapter 12 - Handling Exceptions
• Chapter 13 - Custom Types
• Chapter 14 - Class Design: Composition and Inheritance
• Chapter 15 - Algorithm Quality
• Chapter 16 - Representing Relationships with Graphs

exercises

chapter 1

1. What is a compiler?
2. What is an interpreter?
3. How is a compiler similar to an interpreter? How are they different?
4. How is compiled or interpreted code different from source code?
5. What tool does a programmer use to produce Python source code?
6. What is necessary to execute a Python program?
7. List several advantages developing software in a higher-level language has over developing software in machine language.
8. How can an IDE improve a programmer’s productivity?
9. What is the “official” Python IDE?
10. What is a statement in a Python program?