{
 "cells": [
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "# Chapter 6: Text & Bytes (Review Questions)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "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/main/06_text/00_content.ipynb) and [second <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/main/06_text/01_content.ipynb) part of Chapter 6.\n",
    "\n",
    "Be concise in your answers! Most questions can be answered in *one* sentence."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## Essay Questions "
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "Answer the following questions *briefly*!"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "**Q1**: In what sense is a **\"string\" of characters** a **sequence**? What is a **sequence** after all? A *concrete* **data type**, or something else?"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    " < your answer >"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "**Q2**: What is a direct consequence of the `str` type's property of being an **ordered** sequence? What operations could we *not* do with it if it were *unordered*?"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    " < your answer >"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "**Q3**: What does it mean for an object to be **immutable**? Discuss how we can verify the `str` type's immutability by comparing the two variables `example` and `full_slice` below. Are they pointing to the *same* object in memory?\n",
    "```python\n",
    "example = \"text\"\n",
    "full_slice = example[:]\n",
    "```\n",
    "Hint: Find out what `[:]` does first!"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    " < your answer >"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "**Q4**: Describe in your own words what we mean by **string interpolation**!"
   ]
  },
  {
   "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": [
    "**Q5**: **Triple-double** quotes `\"\"\"` and **triple-single** quotes `'''` create a *new* object of type `text` that models so-called **multi-line strings**."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    " < your answer >"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "**Q6**: A **substring** is a string that *subsumes* another string."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    " < your answer >"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "**Q7**: Indexing into a `str` object with a *negative* index **fails silently**: It does *neither* raise an error *nor* do anything useful."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    " < your answer >"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "**Q8**: We *cannot* assign a *different* character to an index or slice of a `str` object because it is **immutable**."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    " < your answer >"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "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": "3.12.2"
  },
  "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": 4
}