Submitted reading questions for 03/14/2014

CS 121B (CS1), Spring 2014

sid	q1	categ	annot
10122	How does .sort work?
10123	When and how will the original list be changed?
10124	Could you explain matrices and the dictionary methods?
10127	What are some real world uses of dictionaries in programming?
10131	Does Python allow the use of operators to modify matrices?
10132	Does Python create a dictionary of functions that have been created and stored in the program. If true, how does calling them work?
10135
10202	Does dictionaries work the same as assigning a value to a variable?
10203	Could you explain more about keys?
10205	What is the practical use of a dictionary in code? What would programmers use them for?
10208	Are the 0's in a sparse matrix automatically assigned?
10209	How would one implement a sparse matrix into a function? In what instance would one use sparse matrices?
10211	What is a call graph?
10213	What is a call graph?
10215	Count we go over the dictionary representations of matrices?
10216	Are there limits to the number of stages in pipeline parallelism? Might there be more than just these three: mapping, shuffling, and reducing?
10219	Can you go over the purpose of the program in the matrices section.
10223	If all of this can be done with code, why are programs like google translate still so faulty? You would think that a programmer could simply write in all of the grammar rules for that language...
10225	What are the practical applications of using matrices in CS?

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sid	otherqs	categ	annot
10135	So there appears to be a problem with how the problem is written. Python doesn't like it when you try to name your function str.split(). I keep getting a syntax error. I could make it work with arguments, but the problem doesn't want me to do that. Thoughts?
10216	I've read/heard about these in relation to the CSCI department: what are Beowulf clusters?

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