IT 116: Introduction to Scripting
Answers to Class 3 Ungraded Quiz

  1. What do you call one or more lines of code that perform a complete action?
    a statement
  2. What do you call a series of statements that has a name and performs some task?
    a function
  3. What do you call a value given to a function when it is run?
    an argument
  4. Where do arguments appear in a call to a function?
    inside parentheses right after the function name
  5. What do you call a a sequence of characters?
    a string
  6. What do you call a value written out directly inside the code?
    a literal
  7. What do you call a statement that runs a function?
    a function call
  8. What do you call a statement that gives a value to a variable?
    an assignment statement
  9. What do you call a location in RAM with a name that holds a value?
    a variable
  10. How do you create a variable in Python?
    with an assignment statement