Answer questions based on Python programming language

• Comments

  • Rule for writing valid comments

  • Examples of comments

• Identifiers

  • Rules for writing valid identifiers

  • Length of an identifier

  • Case sensitivity: are uppercase and lowercase characters different?

  • Connectors

  • Examples

  • Keywords/Reserved words: Are keywords reserved words?

  • Standard identifiers: does the language have standard identifiers?

• Constant Data/ Literal Constants

  • Possible constant data follow:

    • Boolean constants

    • Character constants

    • Integer constants

    • Decimal constants

    • Floating-point constants

    • String constants

    • Special constants

• Variables, Basic Data Types and Type Binding

  • Name: how is it referred to?

  • Address: is the address of a variable accessible? If Yes, how?

  • Is the size of a data type dependent on the computer?

  • Possible Basic Data Types:

    • Signed integers

    • Unsigned integers

    • Floating-point Types

    • Decimal

    • Boolean types

    • Character Types

    • Character String Type (is there a basic data type to represent strings?)

    • String Length

    • Static length strings, limited dynamic length strings or dynamic length strings?

  • Type Binding:

    • Is the type binding static or dynamic? Do we have type inference?

    • If the type binding is static, do we have implicit or explicit declarations of variables?

• Arithmetic Expressions

  • (character/integer/floating point) arithmetic operators?

  • Rule for writing (character/integer/floating point) arithmetic expressions.

  • Rule for evaluating arithmetic expression

  • Does the language allow mixed-mode expressions? If yes, what is the type conversion rule?

  • Order of operands evaluation.

  • Are there restrictions on operand evaluation side effects?

  • Does the language allow user-defined operator overloading?

  • Does the language have decimal arithmetic operations?

• Logical Expressions

  • Relational operators?

  • Logical operators?

  • Precedence of basic operators?

• Assignment Statements

  • Syntax

  • Are mixed-mode assignments allowed? If yes, what is the coercion rule?

  • Is the assignment an operator?

  • Do we have compound assignments?

  • Initial values of variables?

  • Naming constants?

  • Increment and decrement operators?

• Representations of String Data

  • If strings are not represented by a basic data type, how are they represented?

  • What are the operations on strings?

  • Converting strings of digits to numerical values?

  • Converting numerical values to strings?