Exercises
Warm Ups
These are sample exercises intended to test your command of Python fundamentals.
Warm Up 1
What error message do you get when you run this program (hint: there are at least two problems)
def get_energy(mass):
speed_of_light = 300000000
return mass * speed_of_light ** 2
weights = [1, 100, .5, .75]
while weights:
joules = get_energy(kg)
print(kg, "kg is equal to ", joules, "joules")What output do you see when you fix it?
Warm Up 2
Write a program that will let you enter a word or phrase and then tell you many characters long it is. The program should allow the user to keep entering words and phrases until they enter "quit".
Here’s what a sample run might look like:
Enter a word/phrase: python
That is 6 characters long
Enter a word/phrase: holy coding, batman!
That is 20 characters long
Enter a word/phrase: quit
Bye!Warm Up 3
Write a program that will let you enter in a word or sentence in lower case and will print it out with the first letter capitalized. Hint, all strings have a method capitalize, see if you can use it.
Warm Up 4
Write a program that will let you enter a sentence and will print each word out separately with the first letter capitalized. Hint: use the string’s split function together with what you know about for loops and lists.