IBCS1 - 1314 - November

Wednesday - Friday (11/27/13 - 11/29/13)

• Thanksgiving Break

Tuesday (11/26/13)

Agenda:

• If you have not completed all of List-2, finish it over Thanksgiving Break
• Demo Advanced Python List Exercises
• List & String Practice
  1. Assume you have a list of strings of peoples' full names in random order. Print out an alphabetized list of only the last names.
  2. 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.
  3. 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)

Monday - Tuesday (11/25/13)

Agenda:

• Complete Advanced Python List Exercises by Wednesday (2/6/13)
• If you are done with all the exercises, then do the following:
  1. Read up on the rules of blackjack
     • Wikipedia: Blackjack
     • How Stuff Works: Blackjack
  2. Draw a simple flowchart for a simple blackjack game (Vegas rules). Be sure to use the flowchart symbols
     • Media:Flowcharts.ppt
• List & String Practice
  1. Assume you have a list of strings of peoples' full names in random order. Print out an alphabetized list of only the last names.
  2. 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.
     • 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)

Friday - Monday (11/22/13 - 11/25/13)

Agenda:

• Complete all exercises from List-2
• Complete Advanced Python List Exercises1

Wednesday - Thursday (11/20/13-11/21/13)

Agenda:

• VA Workplace Readiness Skills Assessment scores
  • Submit your pretest score to Mr. Bui through the VA WRS Score Survey
• MS Excel/Spreadsheet Algorithms
• Complete all exercises from List-2
• Work on Advanced Python List Exercises

Monday - Wednesday (11/18/13 - 11/20/13)

Agenda:

• VA Workplace Readiness Skills Assessment scores
  • Submit your pretest score to Mr. Bui through the VA WRS Score Survey
• Complete all exercises from List-1
• Complete all exercises from List-2

Wednesday - Friday (11/13/13 - 11/15/13)

Agenda:

• Lists - Media:Lists_Python.ppt
• (Basic) Python List Exercises
• Complete all exercises from List-1
• Complete all exercises from List-2

Friday - Tuesday (11/8/13 - 11/12/13)

Agenda:

• Complete and demo E-mail Harvester Assignment
• Harvesting an e-mail separated by anything
• Harvesting all e-mails separated by anything
• Lists - Media:Lists_Python.ppt
• (Basic) Python List Exercises
• Complete 6 exercises from List-1

Wednesday- Thursday (11/6/13 - 11/7/13)

Agenda:

• VA Workplace Readiness Skills Assessment
  • Pretest - Complete the VA WRS Benchmark Test (53 mins)
  • Submit your pretest score to Mr. Bui through the VA WRS Score Survey
• Complete and demo Pig Latin Translator - at least be able to translate a single word
• Work on E-mail Harvester Assignment

Monday (11/4/13)

Agenda:

• Complete and demo Pig Latin Translator
• Work on E-mail Harvester Assignment