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Lecture 5, Tue 01/30
Boolean Expressions, Conditionals
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# CS 8, 1-30-18
''' Pair Programming
- A popular and effective way for students to learn
programming.
- Pair programming is highly adopted in courses
(and even industry).
- Don't just split up the work like "you do the
1st half and I do the 2nd half"
- This may be OK in software dev teams, but not
OK from a learning perspective.
- Pairs should work in sync with each other such
that both students learn all the material.
- Format of pair programming
- One student is a DRIVER that controls the
keyboard and types out the code.
- One student is a NAVIGATOR that asks questions
and provides deeper insight.
- Both DRIVERS and NAVIGATORS contribute to
solving the problem together.
- DRIVER and NAVIGATOR switch off periodically
- Both students can write out the code.
- Strong-style pair programming
- Similar to traditional pair programming, BUT
- NAVIGATOR must communicate what the DRIVER types
- "For an idea to go from you head into the computer,
it MUST go through someone else's hands"
- Working with a partner for Lab02 is optional.
- Gradescope allows each submission to add a
"group member"
- Be sure to add a group member FOR EACH submission.
- Some general advice with working in groups
- Don't flake out on your partner!
'''
''' Recall - Booleans
- Boolean values are a special type that evaluates
to either True or False
- BOOLEAN EXPRESSIONS are statements that evaluate
to True or False
#Example
print(4 < 6)
print(4 == 4)
print(4 != 4)
print(4 >= 5)
print("Rich" in "Richert")
# Boolean Algebra
x = True
y = False
print(not x)
print(not y)
print(x and y)
print(x or y)
'''
''' Conditional Statements
- The ability to tell the computer to perform one thing
in a situation vs another thing in another situation.
- It enables programmers to customize their program's
behavior
- The basic construct to tell a program to do one thing
or another is an IF statement
Syntax:
if BOOLEAN_EXPRESSION:
STATEMENT(S)
- Evaluates the boolean expression (True or False)
- If True, execute the statement(s)
- If false, skip the statement(s) and continue
execution.
- Indentation in Python is VERY IMPORTANT!
- It tells python which statements are executed in
certain conditions
# Example
milesDriven = 150
print("Should you pull over and fill up your gas tank?")
if milesDriven > 200:
print("Yes, you need gasoline") # part of the condition
print("Drive safe") # not part of condition since not indented
- What if we wanted to do something in the event that the
boolean condition is False?
if BOOLEAN_EXPRESSION:
STATEMENT(S) #1
else:
STATEMENT(S) #2
- Evaluate the boolean expression (True or False)
- If True, execute STATEMENT(S) #1
- If False, skip STATEMENT(S) #1 and execute STATEMENT(s) #2
'''
'''
milesDriven = 50
print("Should you pull over and fill up your gas tank?")
if milesDriven > 200:
print("Yes, you need gasoline")
else:
print("Nope, you can keep driving")
print("Drive safe")
'''
'''
- You can nest expressions / functions / etc. to form
your boolean expression
'''
'''
# Example
if int(input("What's your age? ")) >= 21:
print("You can drink alcohol, but do so responsibly")
else:
print("Can't drink alcohol yet - how about some OJ")
print("Enjoy the party")
'''
''' Repetition and Loops
- Besides conditions, another useful task for a program
to do is repeat the same thing over and over and over ...
- A FOR loop is like looping through a collection and doing
something for each item.
Syntax
for VARIABLE in COLLECTION:
STATEMENT(S)
- Assigns an element in the collection to the variable (starts with 1st item)
- Executes STATEMENT(S)
- Assigns the next item in the collection to the variable
- Executes STATEMENT(S)
- Continues program execution when there are no more items in the collection.
'''
# A simple example with a "FOR" loop
name = "Richert"
for c in name:
print(c) # prints each character in name on a single line
# Example with multiple types in a list (collection)
list = [[1,2], "Richert", 4.2, 100, True]
for var in list:
print(var)
print("------")
print("out of for loop")
print("continuing...")