IB Computer Science 1

Wednesday (2/19/20)

Agenda:

• Missing Robots + Item Collection Game (Top Down) w/ lists and loops demo
• Strings and Lists notes - https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods
  • split()
• File Reading and Writing - https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/inputoutput.html#reading-and-writing-files
  • Media:Constitution.txt
    • How many times does the word "the" appear in the constitution? (capitalized or not)
  • http://courses.washington.edu/b517/Datasets/datasets.html
• Practice with the datasets...
  • Average length of a group of sharks - http://courses.washington.edu/b517/Datasets/sharklengths.csv
  • Birthdata - http://courses.washington.edu/b517/Datasets/BirthsKingCounty2001.txt
    • Male : Female birth ratio
    • Racial/ethnic percentages
• Benford's Law Assignment
  1. Read and watch Benford's Law and Fraud Detection
  2. Further reading Benford's Law
  3. Research and find a set of naturally occurring numbers. Here are some ideas, but you can come up with your own:
     • Testing Benford's Law
     • U.S. Government's Open Data
       • Data.gov Datasets
     • U.S. Census Bureau
     • Tableau: Free Public Data Sets
     • Springboard: Free Public Data Sets
     • Heights of mountains
     • Atomic weights in the periodic table
     • Baseball statistics
     • etc.
  4. Create a text file that contains a list of your numbers (try to have a list of ~1000 numbers if possible)
     • There are many different ways to do this...some people use Excel, Google Sheets, Sublime, Notepad, etc.
  5. Write a program that loads your text file, reads the data, extracts the leading digit(s) of the data set, and displays each digit's frequency

Wednesday - Friday (2/12/20 - 2/14/20)

Agenda:

• Python Lists Quiz in Canvas
• Re-implement Robots + Item Collection Game (Top Down) w/ lists and loops
  • Demo your game
• Strings and Lists notes - https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods
  • split()
• File Reading and Writing - https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/inputoutput.html#reading-and-writing-files
  • Media:Constitution.txt
  • http://courses.washington.edu/b517/Datasets/datasets.html

Monday (2/10/20)

Agenda:

• Lists quiz on Wednesday (2/12/20)
  • List basics (creating, accessing, modifying, etc.)
  • List traversal (loops w/ lists)
  • List summation, search, and/or min/max
• Lists of Objects
  • Bouncing Ball w/ lists
  • Flappy Bird w/ lists
• Assignment: re-implement Robots + Item Collection Game (Top Down) w/ lists and loops
  • You should have 3 lists: allObjects, robots, & items

Tuesday - Thursday (2/4/20 - 2/6/20)

Warmup:

• Complete the bigger() and isDigit() repl.its

Agenda:

• Course Request Forms
  • Rising Seniors -> IB CS 2 and/or AP CS A and/or AP CS Principles
  • Rising Juniors -> AP CS A and/or AP CS Principles
• Review Python List Exercises
• Complete List Repl.its by Thursday 2/6/20
  • List Review Exercises
  • List Search
  • List Minimum
  • List Maximum
  • List Reverse
• Optional List Challenge:
  • Complete Random Number List and List Surprise from Advanced Python List Exercises
• Lists of Objects
  • Bouncing Ball w/ lists
  • Flappy Bird w/ lists