IBCS1 - 1314 - December

Monday - Wednesday (12/23/13 - 1/1/14)

• Winter Break

Homework:

• Complete the Acey Deucey Flowchart over the non-denominational winter holiday
• Share the flowchart with Mr. Bui over Google Drive
  • You can upload as a pdf and share it

Thursday - Friday (12/19/13)

Agenda:

• War Code Quiz
• Acey Deucey Rules checklist
• Acey Deucey Flowchart Assignment
  1. Read all the rules of the game: Acey Deucey Rules
  2. You do not need to learn or use the region-specific rules.
  3. Create a flowchart that models the Acey Deucey card game and its rules (you can use whatever program(s) you like)
  4. You need to be sure to include all the rules in your flow chart
  5. You need to use the standard flowchart symbols: Media:Flowcharts.ppt

Homework:

• Complete the Acey Deucey Flowchart over the non-denominational winter holiday
• Share the flowchart with Mr. Bui over Google Drive
  • You can upload as a pdf and share it

Monday - Wednesday (12/16/13 - 12/18/13)

Agenda:

• War Card Simulation
  1. Finish War Code
  2. Receive a copy of the War code
  3. Type up the War code on your computer and comment the code to explain what all the major lines do
  4. Make sure your War Card program works
• Bring a deck of cards to next class
• Acey Deucey Flowchart Assignment
  1. Read all the rules of the game: Acey Deucey Rules
  2. You do not need to learn or use the region-specific rules.
  3. Create a flowchart that models the Acey Deucey card game and its rules (you can use whatever program(s) you like)
  4. You need to be sure to include all the rules in your flow chart
  5. You need to use the standard flowchart symbols: Media:Flowcharts.ppt

Wednesday - Friday (12/11/13 - 12/13/13)

Agenda:

• Introduction to Flow Charts
  • Media:Flowcharts.ppt
  • Draw the flowchart for the list search algorithm (finding a number in a list of numbers)
  • Draw the flowchart for the list minimum algorithm
• War Card "Game" Simulator Walk-through
  1. Read the War Rules
  2. On a piece of paper or using a computer drawing tool (e.g. Google Draw, MS Word), create a flow chart for the rules and steps of War. Be sure to include the following steps:
     • Shuffle deck
     • Deal deck halves to 2 players
     • Each player reveals top card
     • Player with higher card puts both cards at the bottom of his/her deck
     • If both players' cards match, then there is "war"
       1. Both players put 3 cards face down, and reveal 4th card face up. Player with higher card takes all 10 cards
  3. We will code the War card game as a class using our flow chart
• Receive a copy of the War code
• Type up the War code on your computer and comment the code to explain what all the major lines do

Monday - Tuesday (12/9/13 - 12/10/13)

• Snow Days

Thursday - Friday (12/5/13 - 12/6/13)

Warmup:

• Text-based card game introduction warmup
  1. Create a text file that has all the names for a deck of cards (Examples: 5 of Diamonds, Jack of Clubs)
  2. Write a program that loads the text file's data into a list of strings
     • Look through Python-reading and writing files and find the the f.readlines() function
  3. Store all the strings loaded into a list of strings named deck
  4. Create 2 empty lists named p1Hand and p2Hand
  5. Deal 5 cards from the deck to p1Hand
     • Look through Python-Lists and find the list.pop() function. Read how the functions works to remove elements from a list. You can then use the list.append() function to add those elements to another list
  6. Deal 5 cards from the deck to p2Hand
  7. Print out both hands

Agenda:

• Introduction to Flow Charts
  • Media:Flowcharts.ppt
  • Draw the flowchart for the list search algorithm (finding a number in a list of numbers)
  • Draw the flowchart for the list minimum algorithm
• War Card "Game" Simulator Walk-through
  1. Read the War Rules
  2. On a piece of paper or using a computer drawing tool (e.g. Google Draw, MS Word), create a flow chart for the rules and steps of War. Be sure to include the following steps:
     • Shuffle deck
     • Deal deck halves to 2 players
     • Each player reveals top card
     • Player with higher card puts both cards at the bottom of his/her deck
     • If both players' cards match, then there is "war"
       1. Both players put 3 cards face down, and reveal 4th card face up. Player with higher card takes all 10 cards
  3. We will code the War card game as a class using our flow chart

Monday - Wednesday (12/2/13 - 12/4/13)

Agenda:

• 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)