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Why is it useful for a programming language to offer the capacity to create both programmer-initialized variables and user input variables? Explain your answer in a paragraph.

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Plotting is an essential skill for Engineers. Plots can reveal trends in data and outliers. Plots are a way to visually communicate results with your engineering team, supervisors and customers. In this post, we are going to plot a couple of trig functions using Python and matplotlib. Matplotlib is a plotting library that can produce line plots, bar graphs, histograms and many other types of plots using Python. Matplotlib is not included in the standard library. If you downloaded Python from python.org, you will need to install matplotlib and numpy with pip on the command line.

> pip install matplotlib
> pip install numpy

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When you execute the instruction

aval=input('Input the data: ')
because of the way the input function works, the data type of the variable aval will be str. How should this instruction be modified if you want to input numerical data?

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ival = atoi(aval);

to get an integer (ival) given the string in aval. I will leave the rest of the details up to you including looking which “#include” declares atoi. If you want “real” (floating point numbers), you might want atof.


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What would you predict the screen output to be after this Python code snippet executes?

avalue = 3.14
bvalue = 35
if not(avalue <= 20) or (bvalue < 20):
print('Thank you')
print('Did the code within the if statement execute?')
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What would you predict the screen output to be after this Python code snippet executes?

avalue = 20
bvalue = 15
if (avalue > 20) and (bvalue < 20):
print('Thank you')
else:
print('You are welcome')
print('You are here')
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What would you predict the screen output to be after this Python code snippet executes?

avalue = -22.5
bvalue = 2.1
if avalue>1:
    print('Code group 1 executes')
elif not(avalue>1 and bvalue>4):
    print('Code group 2 executes')
else:
    print('Code group 3 executes')
    print('Which code group executed?')

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Taking inputs (stdin)

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import sys
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About Python

Python is a very popular general-purpose programming language which was created by Guido van Rossum, and released in 1991. It is very popular for web development and you can build almost anything like mobile apps, web apps, tools, data analytics, machine learning etc. It is designed to be simple and easy like english language. It's is highly productive and efficient making it a very popular language.

Tutorial & Syntax help

Loops

1. If-Else:

When ever you want to perform a set of operations based on a condition IF-ELSE is used.

if conditional-expression
    #code
elif conditional-expression
    #code
else:
    #code

Note:

Indentation is very important in Python, make sure the indentation is followed correctly

2. For:

For loop is used to iterate over arrays(list, tuple, set, dictionary) or strings.

Example:

mylist=("Iphone","Pixel","Samsung")
for i in mylist:
    print(i)

3. While:

While is also used to iterate a set of statements based on a condition. Usually while is preferred when number of iterations are not known in advance.

while condition  
    #code

Collections

There are four types of collections in Python.

1. List:

List is a collection which is ordered and can be changed. Lists are specified in square brackets.

Example:

mylist=["iPhone","Pixel","Samsung"]
print(mylist)

2. Tuple:

Tuple is a collection which is ordered and can not be changed. Tuples are specified in round brackets.

Example:

myTuple=("iPhone","Pixel","Samsung")
print(myTuple)

Below throws an error if you assign another value to tuple again.

myTuple=("iPhone","Pixel","Samsung")
print(myTuple)
myTuple[1]="onePlus"
print(myTuple)

3. Set:

Set is a collection which is unordered and unindexed. Sets are specified in curly brackets.

Example:

myset = {"iPhone","Pixel","Samsung"}
print(myset)

4. Dictionary:

Dictionary is a collection of key value pairs which is unordered, can be changed, and indexed. They are written in curly brackets with key - value pairs.

Example:

mydict = {
    "brand" :"iPhone",
    "model": "iPhone 11"
}
print(mydict)

Supported Libraries

Following are the libraries supported by OneCompiler's Python compiler

Name	Description
NumPy	NumPy python library helps users to work on arrays with ease
SciPy	SciPy is a scientific computation library which depends on NumPy for convenient and fast N-dimensional array manipulation
SKLearn/Scikit-learn	Scikit-learn or Scikit-learn is the most useful library for machine learning in Python
Pandas	Pandas is the most efficient Python library for data manipulation and analysis
DOcplex	DOcplex is IBM Decision Optimization CPLEX Modeling for Python, is a library composed of Mathematical Programming Modeling and Constraint Programming Modeling