Unit 1 test – Edhesive Questions &
Answers
List the three types of software - ✔✔Application: most programs you use
Operating: Runs computers, controls memory
Compiler: creates program for computer to follow
What is
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Unit 1 test – Edhesive Questions &
Answers
List the three types of software - ✔✔Application: most programs you use
Operating: Runs computers, controls memory
Compiler: creates program for computer to follow
What is the CPU - ✔✔Central Processing Unit- carries out program instructions: the brain of the
computer.
5 things all computing devices have in common - ✔✔Input devices, output devices, CPU, main
memory, secondary memory.
What are programs - ✔✔instructions a computer follows
what is the difference between hardware and software - ✔✔Hardware is the physical machine,
software is the programs that run on hardware
What symbol do we use for comments? - ✔✔#
Define variable - ✔✔A name for a spot in the computers memory
two main data types in python - ✔✔strings and numbers
difference between analog and digital - ✔✔Analog is data from the real world while digital is
information converted into numeric data to be stored in a computing device.
What does the "str" command do - ✔✔turns a number into a string so it can be combined with
other strings.
For ex: print ("Answer: " + str(value))
write the code to input a number - ✔✔num = int (input ("Enter a number: "))
Write the code to print the following
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill - ✔✔print (" \"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss
of enthusiasm.\"\n\t- Winston Churchill")
print ("Computer \n\t\tScience") - ✔✔computer
science
what is not an output device? - ✔✔camera
Not a legal variable - ✔✔%information
print ("she sells \nseashells")
print ("by the seashore") - ✔✔she sells
seashells
by the seashore
print ("/\\")
print ("\\/") - ✔✔/\
\/
what we use to communicate day to day - ✔✔Natural Language
formal language - ✔✔designed to be very clear and work consistently every time it is used
input - ✔✔information the user sends to the computer
memory locations are described using - ✔✔variables
what do we use to keep output from multiple print commands on the same line - ✔✔, = comma
long term memory used by computer - ✔✔secondary memory
special output characters marked with a \ - ✔✔Escape charachters
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