Tuesday 6-Dec

Post date: Dec 06, 2011 11:57:10 PM

Announcements

• • Final exam: Tuesday 13-Dec 3:30 pm in our lecture hall (102 CESL)

    • Final exam review session Monday 12-Dec in 906 Gould-Simpson, 6:00 pm to ?

    • Practice final (linked at 8:00 pm) ista130PracticeFinal.pdf

    • Answers to practice final to be linked (TBL) here Monday 13-Dec @ 6:00 pm

  • Connect4Test.py and Connect4GUI.py are also linked on the code demos page

    • The test methods with assertEquals in Connect4Test.py are the basis for 80% of your grade for this project

    • The GUI is for fun (thanks Denise)

  • Remember we had free late days and penalties that means you can get project in by Wednesday 9:00 pm for possibly 100%

  • Section leader lab hours in 228 Gould Simpson end at 5:00 pm 7-Dec.

    • Section leaders will NOT be available after 5:00 Wednesday

Homework

• • If necessary, work on Connect 4 Project using free late days

  • Take the practice test before the review session, Monday 6:00 pm in 906 Gould Simpson

Lecture Outline:More List processing

• Survey as part of a research grant to develop new courses: 15 minutes

• Demo Selection sort--need five volunteers 15 minutes

  • Code demo: def selectionSort(list)

• Final Exam preview (handout practice finals)

  • Like the midterm, the final is worth 18% of your final grade

    • In the CESL lecture hall, Tuesday 13-Dec 3:30 to 5:30 (you should not need all 2 hours)

    • Final exam review session Monday 12-Dec in 906 GS

    • Topics (somewhat comprhensive final with string, selection and repetition, but no pedantic questions that are "overly concerned with minute details or formalisms")

    • "Show the output" type questions to provide examples of Python code

    • Control structures: if..elif, for loops, while loops

    • How many times does this loop execute

    • Function and parameters

    • Modifying a list in a function modifies the associated argument after the function call

    • String processing with a loop

    • Lists processing with a loop

    • List of list processing with nested for loops

    • Add methods to class Matrix (like this week's lab)

      • New added after lecture, solution to this weeks lab GradeSheet.py

        • • • This needs an input file: ista130_6by8

    • Write a function with selection

  • See practice final that represents the format, style, scope, and type of questions that will be on the ISTA 130 final, Fall 2011

• TCEs

• Quiz where you will get 10/10