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This module is one in a collection of modules on Python designed for teaching ITSE 1359 Introduction to Scripting Languages: Python at Austin Community College in Austin, TX.
This module contains review questions and answers keyed to the module titled Itse1359-1010-Getting Started .
Once you study that module, you should be able to answer the review questions in this module.
The questions and the answers in this module are connected by hyperlinks to make it easy for you to navigate from the question to the answer and back again.
(Note to blind and visually impaired students: with the exception of two bitmap images that are used solely as spacers to separate the question sectionfrom the answer section, all of the material in this module is presented in plain text format and should be accessible using an audio screen reader or abraille display.)
True or False? Python is useful only as a compiled language.
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True or False? Python is available for free.
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True or False? Python is an object-oriented language.
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True or False? Python has a large core and a small library.
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What does the Python interactive prompt look like?
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What is the meaning of the following two images?
These images were inserted here simply to insert some space between the questions and the answers to keep them from being visible on the screen at thesame time.
This image was also inserted for the purpose of inserting space between the questions and the answers.
The Python interactive prompt is>>>
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False. Just the opposite is true, small core and large library.
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True . However, because Python is not a strongly-typed language, some restrictions apply in comparison with the object-oriented nature ofstrongly-typed languages such as Java and C++.
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True. As of September 2014, Python can be downloaded for free from (External Link) . The license agreement states in part:
"Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, PSF hereby grants Licensee a nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide license to reproduce, analyze, test, perform and/or display publicly, prepare derivative works, distribute, and otherwise use Python 3.4.1 alone or in any derivative version, provided, however, that ..."
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False. Python can be used in an interactive or interpreted mode. Although not discussed in the Getting Started module, there are also compilers available forPython.
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Affiliation : I am a professor of Computer Information Technology at Austin Community College in Austin, TX.
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