Assessment: Pipes and Filters
The following two activities are based on the Pipes and Filters lesson. Ex 1. Beginning with the animals.text file from the lesson which contains the following lines: 2012-11-05,deer 2012-11-05,rabbit...
View ArticleAssessment: Analyzing Patient Data
Q1: Given the NumPy array >>> print data [[ 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18] [ 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19] [ 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20] [ 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21] [ 4 6 8 10 12 14...
View ArticleAssessment: Functions, local and global variables
Based on the SWC lesson Creating Functions Question 1 Consider the following piece of Python code: x = 2 n = 3 def poly(x): # Compute simple polynomial value for x n = 2 return x**n print poly(4), x...
View ArticleAssessment – Pipes and Filters
We want to work on a DNA project and start out in the home directory: “/home/jane”. From there, we cd into the subdirectory for our project with: “cd projects/dna”. Finally, we want to copy all files...
View ArticleAssessment – Git: A Better Kind of Backup
You just finished editing the file main.py (already tracked by git) and created a new file functions.py that you want git to track. What command(s) will save all these changes to the repository? >...
View Articlepython while-loop
Q1: Which of the following is correct for a python “while-loop”? 1. “while-loop” is preferred over “for-loops” 2. “while-loop runs until the condition become “false” 3. It is not necessary to test the...
View ArticleAssessment: Collaborating in GitHub
Multiple choice question You are a collaborator on a project stored in GitHub and you already cloned the repository (nicknamed origin) to your local directory. You have been tasked with correcting a...
View ArticleAssessment: Tuple vs List
The following exercises are based on the concept map previously developed: difference between mutable (lists) and immutable (tuple). 1. Suppose we define the following tuple “a” and list “b” as...
View ArticleAssessment: The Shell.
1. The pipe (|) operator in the shell… a) Separates a shell command from a list of optional arguments for that command. b) Redirects the output of the command on the left-hand side of the pipe as input...
View ArticleAssessment: Using Databases, 3. Filtering
This is testing Section 3 using the example data found in Section 1. Both tests are best if you try them in your head first rather than just typing in each option and seeing if you get a result....
View ArticleAssessment: Creating Things (in the shell)
Quiz based on http://software-carpentry.org/v5/novice/shell/02-create.html Question (1) Complete the following steps: * Show the current directory * Create a sub-directory * List the sub-directories...
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Assessment: Using Databases – Combining Data
This assessment uses the Pole of Inaccessibility survey database that is being used to illustrate the Software Carpentry SQL version 5 lesson. Given the tables Person (5 rows total) and Survey (21 rows...
View ArticleAssessment: Collaborating with GIT
This is testing section 3 in Collaborating with GIT. Question 1: Matt is using GIT and GitHub to collaborate with a group of scientist who are all at different institutions. He has just finished a...
View ArticleAssessment: Relative paths, absolute paths, and the home directory
Pertaining to the Files and Directories section of Unix Shell. Question 1 From a user’s home directory of /home/user, “/” represents ________ , and “..” represents __________. A) the top or “root”...
View ArticleAssessment – Writing Tests
1. Consider the following code: def is_palindrome(n): # checks if a given integer is a palindrome. # Returns True if it is, and False if it is not. # e.g., 121 is a palindrome, but 122 is...
View ArticleAssessment: Open Science
Question 1: Which of the following software licenses provides the least restrictions on re-use other than recognizing the original author? CC-BY (Creative commons with attribution) GPL-3 (Gnu Public...
View ArticleImage Grids Colors Assessment – Jay Freeman (saurik)
The color Yellow in ipythonblocks is represented as: 1) (1, 1, 0) 2) (255, 255, 0) 3) (0, 0, 1) 4) (0, 255, 255) What is the common name for the color (0, 0, 0)? ________
View Articleconditional statement assessment
Here are a couple of assessments that I put together for conditional statements. This is related to my concept map on this topic. 1. What is printed by the following block of python code? x = 300 if x...
View ArticleMy demotivation
Operation Systems at my university is a cursed course. I knew that before taking it. There is no professor at the university that does research within the field and so it’s assigned like a round of...
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From Reverse Instructional Design to Motivation
My apologies for being so slow to get this out – a combination of Canadian Thanksgiving and a bad cold. The current assignment has three parts: Post a short story (3-4 paragraphs) about something that...
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