Python Programming
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for Engineers and
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Scientists, 1st Edition
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Cengage
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 2: Software Development, Data Types, and Expressions
Chapter 3: Loops and Selection Statements
Chapter 4: Strings and Text Files
Chapter 5: Lists and Dictionaries
Chapter 6: Design with Functions
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Chapter 7: Design with Recursion
Chapter 8: Simple Graphics and Image Processing
Chapter 9: Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
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Chapter 10: Design with Classes (OOP)
Chapter 11: Data Analysis and Visualization
Chapter 12: Multithreading, Networks, and Client/Server Programming
Chapter 13: Searching, Sorting, and Complexity Analysis
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Chapter 1-13 Answers are at the End of Each Chapter
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chapter 1
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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1. In the early 1940s, computer scientists realized that a symbolic notation could be used instead of machine code, and the
first assembly languages appeared.
a. True
b. False
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2. The first electronic digital computers, sometimes called mainframe computers, consisted of vacuum tubes, wires, and
plugs, and filled entire rooms.
a. True
b. False
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3. The most important example of system software is a computer's operating system.
a. True
b. False
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4. In 1984, Apple Computer brought forth the Macintosh, the first successful mass-produced personal computer with a
graphical user interface.
a. True
b. False
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5. Informally, a computing agent is like a recipe.
a. True
b. False
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6. In the 1930s, the mathematician Blaise Pascal explored the theoretical foundations and limits of algorithms and
computation.
a. True
b. False
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7. Ancient mathematicians developed the first algorithms.
a. True
b. False
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8. When using a computer, human users primarily interact with the memory.
a. True
b. False
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9. In the 1960s, batch processing sometimes caused a programmer to wait days for results, including error messages.
a. True
b. False
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10. An algorithm describes a process that may or may not halt after arriving at a solution to a problem.
a. True
b. False
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11. Magnetic storage media, such as tapes and hard disks, allow bit patterns to be stored as patterns on a magnetic field.
a. True
b. False
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12. Moore's Law states that the processing speed and storage capacity of hardware will increase, and its cost will decrease,
by approximately a factor of 3 every 18 months.
a. True
b. False
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13. The people known as “computers” working on cryptanalysis and ballistics calculations during World War II were
primarily men highly skilled in mathematics and puzzle solving.
a. True
b. False
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14. Gordon Moore coined the term software engineering.
a. True
b. False
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15. Computer science focuses on a broad set of interrelated ideas.
a. True
b. False
16. Each individual instruction in an algorithm is well-defined.
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a. True
b. False
17. A program stored in computer memory must be represented in binary digits, which is also known as ASCII code.
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a. True
b. False
18. A programmer typically starts by writing high-level language statements in a text editor.
a. True
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b. False
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