"The questions below assume that you have read the [first <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/develop/11_classes/00_content.ipynb), [second <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/develop/11_classes/02_content.ipynb), [third <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/develop/11_classes/03_content.ipynb), and [fourth <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/develop/11_classes/04_content.ipynb) part of Chapter 11.\n",
"\n",
"Be concise in your answers! Most questions can be answered in *one* sentence."
]
},
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"source": [
"## Essay Questions "
]
},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q1**: How are **classes** a way to manage the **state** in a big program? How should we think of classes conceptually?"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q2**: What do we mean with **instantiation**? How do **instances** relate to **classes**?"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q3:** What is an **implementation detail**? Name two different examples of implementation details regarding the `Vector` and `Matrix` classes!"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q4**: How are **instance methods** different from **class methods**? How do **special methods** fit into the picture?"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q5**: How do **mutability** and **immutability** come into play when designing a user-defined data type?"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q6**: Explain the concept of **method chaining**!"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q7**: How can we implement **operator overloading** for a user-defined data type? When do we need to user *reverse* special methods?"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"## True / False Questions"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Motivate your answer with *one short* sentence!"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q8**: An instance's **text representation** is a `bytes` object with a special encoding."
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q9**: Computed **properties** are special kinds of **instance methods**."
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q10**: **Sequence emulation** means designing a user-defined data type around the built-in `list` or `tuple` types."
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q11**: The **Python Data Model** can be regarded as the \"Theory\" or \"Mental Model\" behind the Python language."
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q12**: **Polymorphism** means that two instances have the same data type, be it a built-in or user-defined one."
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q13**: **Number emulation** means that two instances of the same user-defined data type can be added together."
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
" < your answer >"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"**Q14**: **Packages** are a good place to collect all the code to be reused in a data science project, for example, across different Jupyter notebooks."
