Midterm Information

The Midterm will be on Canvas; and it will be 60-70% multiple choice, like our homeworks, and will be available self-scheduled over the weekend.

Midterm Concepts

• int vs. float
• operators: +, -, *, **, /, //, %
• semantic errors
• syntax errors
• runtime errors
• script vs. shell
• variable assignment
• comments
• reassignment
• functions
• printing
• parameters
• arguments
• local variables
• declaration order - functions
• reassignment order - variables
• functions that take functions as parameters
• "fruitful functions"
• return
• function composition
• if/else
• elif (chained conditionals)
• and/or/not
• recursion
• base case
• recursive step
• RecursionError
• input function
• basic turtles
• random.randint, random.choice(list)
• while loops
• incrementing variables
• isinstance
• break
• X in Y
• for n in range(...)
• for letter in string
• for item in list
• for key in dictionary
• indexing
• slicing
• list.append
• len(list),len(string), len(dict)
• empty strings
• for index,item in enumerate(list)
• aliasing for lists
• dictionary[key] insert
• dictionary[key] lookup/crash
• dictionary.get(key, backup)