IB Computer Science 1
From WLCS
Monday - Wednesday (12/2/13 - 12/4/13)
Agenda:
- Demo Advanced Python List Exercises
- List & String Practice
- Assume you have a list of strings of peoples' full names in random order. Print out an alphabetized list of only the last names.
- Assume you have a single string containing the entire U.S. Constitution. Calculate and print out the frequency of the word "the"
- Download the following file: Media:Constitution.txt
- Hint: There is a useful string function converts a string to a list of words.
- Assume you have a single data file with 1000 random numbers from 0 to 100. Print out the frequency of each of the numbers.
- Example code to help read in a file:
# open a text file
file = open("Constitution.txt", "r")
# read all lines in the file and save in the constitution string variable
constitutionStr = file.read()
# close the file
file.close()
print(constitutionStr)
- Text-based card game introduction exercises
- Create a text file that has all the names for a deck of cards (Examples: 5 of Diamonds, Jack of Clubs)
- Write a program that loads the text files data
- Store all the strings loaded into a list of strings named deck
- Create 2 empty lists named p1Hand and p2Hand
- Deal 5 cards from the deck to p1Hand
- Deal 5 cards from the deck to p2Hand
- Print out both hands