These are the questions for set 1 of A Ramble Around CS.

Questions for set 1

• When you say a = "Hello, world" in your favorite language, how is the string stored? How about "Hello, 世界"?
• When you say a = "Hello" and b = " world" and then do c = a + b, what happens? How are a, b, and c stored?
• When you say a = 42, and then b = a, and then b = 17, what are a and b? Why?
• When you say a = {"foo": 42}, and then b = a, and then b.foo = 17, what are a and b? Why?
• Why do computer people use “foo” and “bar” all the time? What’s up with that? What about 42 and 17?

We’ll start discussing how memory is laid out and used to represent numbers and text in the next part.