Exam Topics

Exact topics are subject to change.

1. Understand the role of function scope
2. Writing functions with randomness
3. Writing functions with loops
4. Choosing appropriate loops
5. Creating simpler equivalent conditionals
6. Finding errors
7. Writing functions with sequences
8. Utilizing turtle and other modules
9. Connect Python to the outside world with file I/O and command line arguments
10. Implications of the Python memory model
11. Applications of data structures
12. Writing functions with sets
13. Writing functions with dictionaries
14. Understanding and using recursive functions
15. Finding errors (in recursive functions)
16. Using Object-Oriented Programming
17. Searching and sorting algorithms
18. Use big-O analysis to inform algorithm design
19. Understand numeric representations and associated operations
20. Vectorized execution