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Autograder demo: Square a number

This is a simple example question that provides a variable to the student and expects one in return. A list of variables for the user is defined in the parameter names_for_user, and the student can only access these from the setup code. Similarly, a list of variables from the user can be defined in names_from_user. These two parameters control access to variables in the setup and the user code, and are also used to populate the variable tables below.

Find the square of x and save it as x_sq.

The setup code gives the following variables:

Name	Type	Description
`x`	float	The number that needs to be squared

Your code snippet should define the following variables:

Name	Type	Description
`x_sq`	float	The square of $x$

user_code.py

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demo/autograder/python/square

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Autograder demo: Square a number

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2026-09-19 08:00:25 (CDT)

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