Reflection

Vocab

  • Documentation: Text that explains the what, how, or why of your code.
  • Libraries: A collection of prewritten code or procedures that coders can use to maximize their efficiency.
  • Application Programming Interface: A type of software through several computers are able to communicate information amongst each other.

Notes

  • Libraries contain procedures that make programming easier.
  • procedures are especially good for reusing segments of code by calling the procedure.
  • random procedure: Random(a,b) provides a random number in the range [a, b]

Hacks

Multiple Choice

  1. B) a random integer between 'a' and 'b' inclusive
  2. A) x = start, y = stop, z = step
  3. A) random.item() does not exist

Short Answer

  1. Libraries are convenient because they provide procedures and prewritten code to maximize the efficiency of programmers
  2. This procedure takes a list of strings and returns who will buy the meal today
import random 

# takes user input, puts it into a list of names
names_string = input("Give me everybody's names, seperated by a comma.")
names = names_string.split(",")

num_items = len(names)

# uses random to choose a random number
random_choice = random.randint(0, num_items - 1)

# associates random number with a name
person_who_will_pay = names[random_choice]

# prints name
print(f"{person_who_will_pay} is going to buy the meal today!")

Coding challenges 

import random
NAMES = ["Aiden", "Brayden", "Bradley", "Harambe", "Charles", "BigChungus", "Chad", "Brett", "Dorian", "Ryan", "Varalu", "Rohin", "Advay", "SmallChungus"]
rand_list = []

def randomPeople(names, new_names):
    count = 1
    while count <= 5:
        number = random.randint(0, len(names) - 1)
        new_names.append(names[number])
        count += 1
    return new_names

print(randomPeople(NAMES, rand_list))

['Charles', 'BigChungus', 'Rohin', 'Dorian', 'Aiden']

import random
score1 = 0
score2 = 0

def greatestRoll():
    score1 = random.randint(1, 6) + random.randint(1, 6)
    score2 = random.randint(1, 6) + random.randint(1, 6)
    if score1 > score2:
        print("Player 1 won with a score of " + str(score1) + " points!")
    if score1 < score2:
        print("Player 2 won with a score of " + str(score2) + " points!")
    if score1 == score2:
        print("Both players tied with " + str(score1) + " points!")

greatestRoll()

Player 1 won with a score of 9 points!