Next steps in your computing journey in Intro to Computing - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to print a friendly welcome message.

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print([1])

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A"Hello, friend!"

Bprint("Hello, friend!")

CHello, friend!

DHello friend

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Forgetting quotes around text

Trying to print without parentheses

The print function needs a string inside quotes to display text. Option A correctly uses quotes.

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medium

Complete the code to create a list of numbers from 1 to 5.

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numbers = list(range(1, [1]))

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A1

B5

C6

D0

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 5 which excludes 5 itself

Starting range at 1 without adjusting end

The range function goes up to but does not include the end number, so to get 1 to 5, use range(1,6).

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hard

Fix the error in the code to check if a number is even.

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if number [1] 2 == 0:
    print("Even")

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A**

B%

C//

D+

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using + or ** instead of %

Using // which is floor division

The modulo operator % gives the remainder. If number % 2 equals 0, the number is even.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a dictionary of word lengths for words longer than 3 letters.

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{word: [1] for word in words if len(word) [2] 3}

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Alen(word)

B>

C<

Dword

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Common Mistakes

Using word instead of len(word)

Using < instead of >

The dictionary maps each word to its length using len(word). The condition filters words longer than 3 using > 3.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a dictionary with uppercase keys and values greater than 0.

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result = {{ [1]: [2] for k, v in data.items() if v [3] 0 }}

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Ak.upper()

Bv

C>

Dk

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using k instead of k.upper()

Using < instead of >

The keys are converted to uppercase with k.upper(), values are v, and the condition filters values greater than 0 using >.