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    "# Chapter 1: Elements of a Program"
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    "## Content Review"
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    "Read Chapter 1 of the book. Then work through the ten review questions."
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    "### Essay Questions "
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    "Answer the following questions briefly with *at most* 300 characters per question!"
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    "**Q1**: Elaborate on how **modulo division** might be a very useful operation to know!"
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    "**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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    "**Q4**: What is **operator overloading**?"
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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**."
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    "**Q10**: [PEP 8](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) suggests that developers use **8 spaces** per level of indentation."
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    "## Coding Exercises"
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    "### Printing Output"
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    "**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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    "**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."
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    "first = \"Anthony\"\n",
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    "**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."
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