Quiz 4: Conditionals and while loops

Learning Goals

Students should be able to:

• Predict/trace the operation of nested and chained conditionals
• Reason about and predict the execution flow of code in the presence of conditional, assignment, and return statements
• Model the execution of code without running it on a computer
• Translate the behavior of code into its semantic meaning, and compare the semantics of multiple code snippets
• Write complex conditionals
• Solve problems using conditional statements
• Translate English problem descriptions into code
• Use print statements to illustrate the operation of a loop
• Use while loops to translate English descriptions of iteration into Python
• Explain the rules governing a while loop's execution in English

Solutions

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