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

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