Unit 3: Programming questions and answers

Programming: sample questions with answers

What unit 3 covers

Questions follow the book: Technology, Secondary, Form Four, Student Book.

1. Lesson 1: Basics of Programming

   • Overview
   • What is a Programming?
   • Programming Languages
   • IDE
   • What is debugging?
   • Syntax errors
   • Runtime errors
   • Semantic errors
   • Debugging
   • Stepping
   • Most popular programming languages
   • Why Python?

2. Lesson 2: Introduction to Programming Using Python

   • Overview
   • Getting Python
   • Installing Python on Windows
   • Open IDLE
   • Your First Python Program
   • The Interactive Window
   • The Script Window
   • Values, Data Types, Variables and Expressions
   • Data Types
   • String
   • Integers
   • Floats
   • Expressions
   • Basic Calculations in Python
   • More Complex Calculations
   • String expressions
   • Variables
   • Creating Variables with Assignment Statements
   • Variable names
   • Comments in Python
   • Reading Input from the Keyboard
   • Reading Numbers with the input Function
   • Calculating a Percentage
   • Conditional Statements and Boolean Logic
   • If Statement
   • Boolean Expressions and Relational Operators
   • Using the if Statement
   • The if-else Statement
   • Using the if-else Statement
   • The if-elif-else Statement
   • Using the if-elif-else Statement
   • Loop Structures for Repetitions
   • The for Loop: A Count-Controlled Loop
   • Iterating over a List with the for Loop
   • Using the range Function with the for Loop
   • Using the Target Variable inside the Loop
   • Letting the User Control the Loop Iterations
   • The while Loop: A Condition-Controlled Loop
   • Infinite Loops