Study Guide for CS 303E Test 2 (Fall 2009) on 28 Oct 2009

* Loops - while and for

* Functions - user defined and built-in

* Math Functions

* Strings and String Functions

* Reading and Writing Text Files

* Lists and List Functions

* There will be some questions similar to Quiz 2. You will
  be responsible for all the functions listed in the Study
  Guide for Quiz 2.

* 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 two Strings as input parameters
  and returns True if they are anagrams 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".

* 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.

* In addition to the list problems given in the Study Guide for Quiz 3,
  do look at the following problems.

  - Write a function that accepts a 1-D list as input parameter and
  returns a 1-D list that is an exact copy of the input list

  - Write a function that accepts a 2-D list as input parameter and
  returns a 2-D list that is an exact copy of the input list

  - Write a function that accepts a 2-D list as input parameter and
  prints the sum of each row on separate lines

  - Write a function that accepts a 2-D list as input parameter and
  prints the sum of each column on separate lines

  - Write a function that accepts a 2-D list as input parameter and
  prints the sum of each diagonal. Assume that the 2-D list is square.

  - Write a function that accepts an input parameter n (that is a
  positive integer) and returns a 2-D list containing all the numbers
  from 1 through n (inclusive), their squares, and their cubes. For
  example if n was 5 your function will return the following 2-D list:
  [[1, 1, 1], [2, 4, 8], [3, 9, 27], [4, 16, 64], [5, 25, 125]]

  - Write a function that accepts a 1-D list of integers and returns 
  True if all the numbers are in ascending order and False otherwise.
  (It will return True if all the elements are the same.)