Ch. 3: Tasks & Quizzes

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To help us remember the different, systematic ways to use letter case, hyphens, and underscores in file and variable naming conventions, these patterns have fun names.

Cartoon representations of common cases in coding. A snake screams "SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE" into the face of a camel (wearing ear muffs) with "camelCase" written along its back. Vegetables on a skewer spell out "kebab-case" (words on a skewer). A mellow, happy looking snake has text "snake_case" along it.

Artwork CC BY 4.0 @allison_horst)

Q3.1 In which case is this filename? my_first_file_name.R






Q3.2 Why is this filename problematic? MyDocument final.1a.docx





Q3.3 Which of these filenames are both human-friendly and computer-friendly?






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Screenshot of a Finder Window showing path to a highlighted file. These next few quiz questions are not suitable for users of screenreaders.

Screenshot of a Finder window showing a hierarchical folder structure

Q3.4 What is the absolute path to the file highlighted in the screenshot above?





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Q3.5 From the UzK folder, what is the relative path to the file highlighted in screenshot above?





Q3.6 From the Rscripts folder, what is the relative path to the folder 2023_SoSe_CADS (see screenshot above)?





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TipYour turn!

Read the abstract of the following academic article. What was this experimental study about?

Terai, Masato, Junko Yamashita & Kelly E. Pasich. 2021. Effects of Learning Direction in Retrieval Practice on EFL Vocabulary Learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 43(5). 1116–1137. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263121000346.

Q3.7 According to the study, which is the most effective way of learning vocabulary in a foreign language?





The authors of this article have published the data and materials associated with this study on IRIS. You can find them here: https://iris-database.org/search/?s_publicationAPAInlineReference=Terai%20et%20al.%20(2021)

Q3.8 In which format are the video files associated with this publication?





Q3.9 In which format is the analysis code which they shared on IRIS?





Q3.10 The associated materials also include a section entitled “Scores on measures / tests”. Download the file dataset1_ssla_20210313.csv from this section. Which character is used as the separator in this delimiter-separated values (DSV) file?






If you want to find out more about this study, two of my linguistics M.A. students, Hannah Boxleitner & Beyhan Aliy reproduced (2021?)’s analyses in R and documented every step in a case-study chapter that can be found in the online version of this textbook.

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