Computer Science: Programming with a Purpose Week 4 Quiz Answers - Coursera!

The basis for education in the last millennium was “reading, writing, and arithmetic;” now it is reading, writing, and computing. Learning to program is an essential part of the education of every student, not just in the sciences and engineering, but in the arts, social sciences, and humanities, as well. Beyond direct applications, it is the first step in understanding the nature of computer science’s undeniable impact on the modern world. 

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Coursera Computer Science: Programming with a Purpose Week 4 Quiz Answers!

Input and Output

Question 1) Which one of the following is an abstraction for providing input to a program while it is running?

Command-line arguments

Standard output

Standard input

System type conversion

Compiler arguments

Question 2) Which of the following tasks could be implemented as a filter using only a constant amount of memory (e.g., a couple of int or double variables and no arrays)? Mark all that apply.

For each, the input comes from standard input and consists of n real numbers between 0.0 and 1.0.

Print the average of the n numbers

Print the n numbers in increasing order

Print the sum of the squares of the n numbers

Print the median of the n numbers n

Print the n numbers in uniformly random order

Print the maximum and minimum values of the n numbers

Print the percentage of numbers greater than the average of the n numbers

 

Question 3) Which of the following are advantages of using standard input (Stdln) instead of command-line arguments? Mark all that apply.

There is no need to format the data

The StdIn library is built in to Java

We can input strings, not just numbers

Conversion to primitive types is explicitly handled

There is no artificial limit on the amount of data we can input to a program 

We can provide new values while the program is executing

Question 4) Which of the following mechanisms enable us to write programs having no artificial limit on the amount of data they can handle? Mark all that apply.

Command-line arguments

Piping

Standard drawing (StdDraw)

Standard output (Stdout)

Arrays

Question 5) Consider the following program

public class Q45

{

   public static void main(String [ ] args)

     {

      while (!StdIn.is Empty ())

       {

        int x = StdIn.read Int () ;

        if (!StdIn . isEmpty ()) x +- StdIn.read Int () ;

       }

       StdOut.print (x + " ");

     }

     StdOut.println ();

}

Suppose that the standard input stream consists of a sequence of eight 15, separated by whitespace. Give the value printed when this command is issued:

java Q45 <input.txt | java Q45 | java Q45

Answer: 8

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