CS 105 SUMMER WEDNESDAY 4 What to talk about today? From the - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
CS 105 SUMMER WEDNESDAY 4 What to talk about today? From the - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
CS 105 SUMMER WEDNESDAY 4 What to talk about today? From the muddiest points Complex inequalities chaining relational and logical operators Challenge 6.5.4 is a good example of this Function usage (calling) and anatomy
What to talk about today?
From the muddiest points
Complex inequalities – chaining relational and logical
- perators
Challenge 6.5.4 is a good example of this
Function usage (calling) and anatomy (writing)
Your questions – please feel free to post
questions you'd like to see in chat! Otherwise, think 6.33, 6.34, 7.26, 7.27
Quick muddiest points
Indentation?
Please use tab for every code block
Largely a PL issue – the editor handles tab
better than space
def function_name(): statement statement if True: statements
- Global/main scope – no
indent
- Function scope for
function_name
- Scope inside the if
Statement
Quick muddiest points
I found myself wondering why you would use ternary/conditional expressions instead
- f breaking them up into more easily digestable bits. Is it just a style thing or is there a
reason you would use one or the other? I am interested in more information in regard of the conditional expression. It is basically a short-version of a single if-else statement. Why do we need conditional expression? The if-else statement can express the same meaning; and with nested statements, if-else statements can exam more conditions than the conditional expression.
I'm with you here, even though I sometimes use the shorthand Old style code – write as little as possible, people prided themselves on being
- btuse
Modern software engineering – self documenting, legible code is better Most useful for lambdas (out of course scope) and list comprehensions (later on)
Quick muddiest points
I heard people say that if statement occupies a lot of computer resources. Is that true?
Nah fam
Python is operator
You should generally use == for equality in this class is operator is used to check if two OBJECTS are the same For example:
list1 = [1,2,3] list2 = list1 print(list1 is list2)
Quiz 3 comments
High level stats: Mean 80%, Median 83% Perspective – each quiz is 5%. Take your score and
multiply by .05 – an exact 75% is 3.75/5 of the final
points!
Most commonly missed questions are questions that weren't
done on HW5 or related to those questions…Q 5.38, Q 5.39
Practice Quiz 4
Better match to quiz 4 than PQ3 was to 3, so
please be sure to take it at least once!
Topics – Up through loops, but not the harder
excel content from HW7/Topic
Specific programming content:
String formatting is back, conditionals rehash,
loops
From the muddiest points…
I find myself frustrated a lot because the book’ s examples are like building a bookshelf, but the homework is like building a birdhouse. You need to nail wood with a hammer like the book taught, but the way to reach the end goal is slightly different.
Superb insight To scaffold…
The book => bookshelves The homework => birdhouses The quizzes =>
mostly birdhouses, sometimes with different paint. Sometimes dollhouses
Relational and Logical Operators
Python has the
core set, as we'd expect
Order of ops
between them?
==, !=, <= ,
>=, >, <
Logical Operators
Python has three – not, and, or Their precedence is also exactly that – not before
and before or
Given this statement: not False and True or False
((not False) and True) or False (True and True) or False True or False True
Python also has…
in and not in Key piece of setting up for loops Also useful for conditionals "Add a key to a dictionary if it isn't already in the
dictionary"
Two ways to do it: not in vs in
if new_key not in the_dict:
the_dict[new_key] = nv
#Assuming a loop… if new_key in the_dict: continue the_dict[new_key] = nv
Checking two variables Maybe also homework 7.31
Challenge 6.5.4
Function anatomy
Reminder – a function has:
def print_a_name(name): print("Hello " + name + "!") A header: with parameters and function name A body – what the function DOES
Functions
You've been calling functions since you first used
input()
Calling a function is just the function name,
parenthesis, and the arguments needed for the parameters
Examples:
my_name = input() print_a_name(my_name)
Homework/reading disconnect - Functions
In this class, we are at most asking you to write a
function per question
You generally aren't calling functions, unless they
are:
Short answer questions – asking you to call one Methods of an existing object, like .append() Standard library functions, like input()
How are your functions graded?
A lesson on function use and scope Let's look at how Q 5.35 would be
graded!
6.33, 6.33, 7.26, 7.27
Homework questions
Next week
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