a. If you are trying to print your name, what happens if you leave out one of the quotation marks or both, and why?

If you are trying to print your name in a programming language like Python and you leave out one or both of the quotation marks, you will get a syntax error. This is because strings in Python are defined as a sequence of characters within either single quotes (' ') or double quotes (" "). If you leave out one or both of the quotation marks, Python will not recognize it as a string and will throw an error.

For example, if you want to print your name, say John, you would normally write:

print("John")

If you leave out one of the quotation marks:

print("John)

or

print(John")

Python will give a syntax error because it doesn't recognize it as a valid string.

If you leave out both quotation marks:

print(John)

Python will think John is a variable, not a string. If you haven't defined a variable named John, you will get a NameError saying that John is not defined.