Thursday 1-Dec

Post date: Dec 02, 2011 12:1:18 AM

Announcements

• New (added after lecture): There will be a section leader led final exam review session Monday 13-Dec 6-8pm in 906 Gould Simpson (down the hall from lab)

  • Next Monday is our last lab. Please attend...

  • Next Tuesday is our last lecture. Please attend...

    • Get practice final

  • Final exam: Tuesday 13-Dec 3:30 pm in our usual lecture hall

    • Would you like to have a section leader led final exam review session? Sunday night was suggested

Homework

• • Work on Connect 4 Project

  • Optional: Read about dictionaries in Section 11-6. pages 368..377

    • Take D2L quiz: Chapter 11B: Dictionaries

    • This is now a bonus quiz

    • No dictionaries on the final

Lecture Outline:More List processing

• Consider current project. Suggestion *Do the easier method first, the the win methods, one at a time!

  • First Complete __init__, __str__, and makeMove(self, player, column) first

    • run a main program that plays several times with 2 different players, print the changing game to see X and O

  • Complete columnIsFull(self, column)

    • run a main program that fills one column

  • Complete boardIsFull(self)

    • Test with nested loops to fill the board or run Connect4Test.py or use Connect4Test.py with all tests for wins commented out

  • Complete checkWinHorizontal(self)

    • Use nested for loops

    • For each row 0 through 5, see if you can find four consecutive X's or O's beginning at columns 0, 1, 2, and 3

    • Run this code

for row in range(6):

for col in range(4):

print(row, col, ' | ', row, col+1, ' | ', row, col+2,' | ', row, col+3)

• • Complete checkWinVertical(self)

    • Use nested for loops

    • For each column see if you can find four consecutive X's or O's beginning at rows 0.,1, and 2

  • Complete checkWinDiagonal(self)

    • Use nested loops twice

    • From upper left to lower right:

      • Check diagonals beginning from rows 0, 1, and 2 in columns 0, 1, 2, and 3

    • From lower left to upper right:

      • Check diagonals beginning from rows 3, 4, and 5 in columns 0, 1, 2, and 3

  • Complete checkWin(self)

    • Could be a one liner, no loops at all. Use the other three functions to do the work

  • Write the program for a console based game

• Add two methods to class Matrix (on the quiz you will be asked to add one more)

• Quiz #8: 2D arrays