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From: Alexander Hess <alexander@webartifex.biz>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:05:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add review and exercises for notebook 00

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+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "# Chapter 0: Start up"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Content Review"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Read chapter 0 of the book. Then work through the ten review questions."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "### Essay Questions "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Answer the following questions briefly with *at most* 300 characters per question!"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "**Q1**: Describe the difference between the terms *programming* and *computer science*!"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "**Q2**: Explain what is a *pull request* and elaborate how this concept fits to a *distributed* organization of work!"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "**Q3**: In what sense are open-source communities democracies? How are they near-\"perfect\" [meritocracies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy)? How is open-source software development similar to academia?"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "**Q4**: What is a major advantage of a \"slow\" programming language like Python over a faster one like C?"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "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": [
+    "**Q5**: Python has been the fastest growing *major* programming language in recent years."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "**Q6**: Python is named after a snake to emphasize its agility and fast development speed right in its name."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "**Q7**: Python was originally designed for highly intensive numerical computing, in particular for use cases from physics and astronomy."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "**Q8**: JavaScript is a special subset of the Java language."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "**Q9**: Python is *free software*. That means it will never cost anything."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "**Q10**: The main purpose of PEPs is to regulate how code should be documented and/or styled."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## \"Coding\" Exercises"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "### Mastering Markdown"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Briefly review GitHub's guide on [Mastering Markdown](https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/) and create nicely formatted \"text\" cells below!"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "**Q11**: Check the latest [Bundesliga standings](https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/table) and provide a table of the top three teams with the following four columns: rank, team name, games played, and points scored. Render the rank in **bold**, make the team name a clickable link (to the team's website), and put both the games played and points scored in *italics*. The header row should be visually different from the three rows with the teams' information."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "**Q12**: The quote \"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school\" is attributed to Albert Einstein. Use a special Markdown syntax to display the author and his quote appropriately!"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "**Q13**: Integrate this image (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-BoSRlzy9c4/maxresdefault.jpg) of the delicious dessert **milk rice** into this notebook."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " "
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.7.3"
+  },
+  "toc": {
+   "base_numbering": 1,
+   "nav_menu": {},
+   "number_sections": false,
+   "sideBar": true,
+   "skip_h1_title": true,
+   "title_cell": "Table of Contents",
+   "title_sidebar": "Contents",
+   "toc_cell": false,
+   "toc_position": {},
+   "toc_section_display": false,
+   "toc_window_display": false
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 2
+}