Homework 1

Python Basics

Direction

• Please submit your Jupyter Notebook for Homework 1 to the Brightspace with the name below:

  • danl-m1-hw1-LASTNAME-FIRSTNAME.ipynb
    ( e.g., danl-m1-hw1-choe-byeonghak.ipynb )

• The due is February 13, 2024, 7:00 P.M.

• Please send Byeong-Hak an email (bchoe@geneseo.edu) if you have any questions.

• Write a Python Notebook (*.ipynb) to answer each question.

• Make at least some simple comment (# ...) in each question.

• Make one text cell to explain things in each question.

Question 1

How do you assign the value 5 to a variable named x?

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Question 2

Given lst = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], what does lst[1:4] return?

Answer

Question 3

• How do you create a dictionary with keys "apple", "banana", and "cherry", each with the corresponding values 5, 3, and 7?

• How do you access the value associated with the key "banana" in the dictionary created above?

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Question 4

For the expressions below, what is the value of the expression? Explain thoroughly.

True and False

True or False

not (100 == '100' and 25 < 36)

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Question 5

• Create a new if-elif-else chain that prints "well done" if a score is over 90, “good” if between 40 and 90, and "bad luck" otherwise.

Answer

Question 6

Write a for loop that prints out "coding for data analysts" so that each word is printed in a successive iteration.

Answer

Question 7

• How do you import the math module in a Python script?
• After importing math, how do you use its sqrt function to find the square root of 16?

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Question 8

• Do Question 6 in Classwork 1