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Test Bank for Intro to Python for Computer Science and Data Science: Learning to Program with AI, Big Data and The Cloud, 1st edition by Paul Deitel. ISBN-13: 4676 Full Chapters test bank included PART 1 CS: Python Fundamentals Quickstart CS 1. Introduction to Computers and Python DS Intr...

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Chapter 1, Introduction to Computers and Python 1



Introduction to Computers and
Python
1.1 Introduction
1.1 Q1: Which of the following statements is false?
a. Software (that is, the Python instructions you write, which are also called code)
controls hardware (that is, computers and related devices).
b. Programmers use the Python Standard Library and various data-science librar-
ies to “reinvent the wheel.”
c. Programmers use libraries to create software objects that they interact with to
perform significant tasks with modest numbers of instructions.
d. IPython executes Python instructions interactively and immediately shows
their results.
Answer: b. Programmers use the Python Standard Library and various data-
science libraries to “reinvent the wheel.” Actually, programmers use the Py-
thon Standard Library and various data-science libraries to avoid “rein-
venting the wheel.”

1.1 Q2: Which of the following statements a), b) or c) is false?
a. Decades ago, most computer applications ran on networked computers.
b. Today’s applications can be written with the aim of communicating among the
world’s computers via the Internet.
c. A key intersection between computer science and data science is artificial in-
telligence.
d. All of the above statements are true.
Answer: a. Decades ago, most computer applications ran on networked
computers. Actually, decades ago, most computer applications ran on
“standalone” computers (that is, not networked together).

1.2 Hardware and Software
1.2 Q1: Which of the following statements is false?
a. Computers can perform calculations and make logical decisions phenomenally
faster than human beings can.
b. Computers process data under the control of sequences of instructions called
computer programs (or simply programs).
c. A computer consists of various physical devices referred to as hardware (such
as the keyboard, screen, mouse, solid-state disks, hard disks, memory,
d. Computing costs are rising dramatically, due to the increasing complexity of
hardware and software technologies.

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