DS101: Literate Programming

Question 1

Which of these are modern literate programming applications?

Accepted Answer

Interactive notebook programming, Agile Modeling, Extreme Programming (XP)

Question 2

What is part of the Literate Programming workflow?

Accepted Answer

Turn markup into a printable file, Compile code to create an executable file

Question 3

What's YAML for?

Accepted Answer

Used in R Markdown Notebooks, Document meta data, Title, author, date, output information, Configuration of documents

Question 4

What is the Literate Programming output?

Accepted Answer

Automatic table of contents (subroutines), Automatic index (commands, variables), Support for code-based storytelling

Question 5

What is the main idea of Markdown?

Accepted Answer

Easy to customize, Adresses issues conveyable in plain text, Writing format

Question 6

How much does code maintenance cost (percentage of total code costs)?

Accepted Answer

60%-80%

Question 7

What is "Literate Programming"?

Accepted Answer

Both coding instructions and documentation

Question 8

Which of these are properties of HTML?

Accepted Answer

Markup language, Separation of content and layout

Question 9

Which of these are examples for interactive notebook software?

Accepted Answer

Shiny + learnr, R Markdown Notebooks, Emacs + Org-Mode, Kaggle Notebooks

Question 10

Advantages of agile methodologies?

Accepted Answer

For culturally diverse teams, For complex projects

Question 11

Pros and cons of Literate Programming?

Accepted Answer

Con: difficult to standardize, Pro: prettyprinting documents, Pro: Free software

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