Study Guide for CS 303E Test 2 on 29 Mar 2017

* The material for the test will cover chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13.2

* Conditionals: if-elif-else

* Loops - while and for. Use of break and continue.

* Functions - user defined and built-in

* Math Functions

* Random Functions

* Strings and String Functions

* Reading and Writing Text Files

* 1-D Lists

* Algorithms - max, min, sum, sequential search, binary search 

* The questions will be similar to quiz questions and the
  tutorial exercises that you have done on Live Lab and
  Coding Bat and simpler versions of your assignment problems.

* From the Python section of Coding Bat do - String-1, String-2,
  Logic-1, Logic-2, List-1, and List-2.

* From the Java section of Coding Bat do - String-2, String-3,
  Array-2, and Array-3.

* Here are some additional String problems that you want to
  consider. In all cases you will be asked to write a function.

  - Write a function that accepts a String as input parameter
  and returns True if it is palindromic and False otherwise

  - Write a function that accepts a String and a rotation parameter
  and rotates the String by that amount and returns it. For example,
  given a String "computer" and a rotation parameter of 2, it will
  return "ercomput".

  - Write a function that returns True if two Strings are anagrams

* Here are some file manipulation problems to look at.

  - Write a function that accepts two Strings - the name of an input
  file and a target String. It will return the number of occurences
  of the target String in the file.

  - Write a function that accepts the name of an input file and a list
  of forbidden words. If any one of those forbidden words exists in the
  file it will return False and True otherwise.

* Here are some list problems to look at:

  - Write a function that takes as input two 1-D list of the same
  size and returns a single number that is the sum of the corresponding
  products of the elements of the two lists.
  a = [1, 2, 3]
  b = [4, 5, 6]
  Your function should return 1*4 + 2*5 + 3*6 = 32

  - Write a function that takes as input a 1-D list and returns True
  if it is sorted in ascending order and False otherwise.

  - Given a 1-D list of 3 numbers sort the list in ascending order
  without using the built-in sort function or loops.

  - Given a 1-D list shuffle the contents of the list.

  - Given a 1-D list return another 1-D list that contain only the
  unique elements of the first list (remove duplicates)