"Read [Chapter 1](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/master/01_elements.ipynb) of the book. Then work through the ten review questions."
"**Q2**: What is a **dynamically typed** language? How does it differ from a **statically typed** language? What does that mean for Python?"
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"**Q3**: Why is it useful to start counting at $0$?"
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},
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" "
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},
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"metadata": {},
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"**Q4**: What is **operator overloading**?"
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" "
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"**Q5**: What are the basic **naming conventions** for variables? What happens if a name collides with one of Python's [keywords](https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#keywords)?"
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"**Q6**: Advocates of the [functional programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming) paradigm suggest not to use **mutable** data types in a program. What are the advantages of that approach? What might be a downside?"
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"### True / False Questions"
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"Motivate your answer with *one short* sentence!"
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"**Q7**: \"**dunder**\" refers to a group of Australian (\"down under\") geeks that work on core Python."
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"**Q8**: The **Zen of Python** has a high opinion on Indian genius programmers."
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"**Q9**: When NASA famously converted some measurements to the wrong unit and lost a Mars satellite in 1999 ([source](https://www.wired.com/2010/11/1110mars-climate-observer-report/)), this is an example of a so-called **runtime error**."
"**Q11.1**: Read about the [print()](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#print) built-in. How can you use it to print both `greeting` and `audience` *without* concatenating the two strings with the `+` operator?\n",
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"Hint: The `*objects` in the documentation implies that we can insert several comma-seperated variables."
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"greeting = \"Hello\"\n",
"audience = \"World\""
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"print(...)"
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"**Q11.2**: What does the `sep=\" \"` mean in the documentation? Use it to print out the three names in `first`, `second`, and `third` on one line seperated by commas with one [print()](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#print) statement."
"**Q11.3**: Lastly, what does the `end=\"\\n\"` mean in the documentation? Use it in the `for`-loop to print the numbers 1 through 10 in just one line."
