Coding
Workshop

Tue Sep 28

I forgot to put a place to submit work for today ... oops. Some of you have added to last week's work page, which is fine. Please leave me a note on the assignment page for today, pointing me towards what you worked on this week.

feedback

General comments from looking at (most of) your work :

• More short testable functions (or methods) would be better.
• Do more testing (using the examples provided in the advent of code materials).

As you're doing these, you should also be trying to write clean code with docstrings and tests, getting into the habits of good coding practice.

Each language has its own conventions and utilities for documentation (at least input and output parameter types and description) and testing ... learning those expectations is part of learning to code.

(OK, I'll get off the soapbox.)

today

Let's look at Norvig's Day 19 maze code, since that was not a popular choice, and there are some interesting ideas in there.

next

What should we do next? And on into the rest of the term?

Some choices (we don't have time for all of these) :

• more advent of code problems (same year or different)
• some projeceuler problems - more mathy; varying difficulty
• look at exercises in programming style ("count frequency of words in a file" task, done many ways)
• implement conway's game of life ... groups ; various techologies possible
• contribute to an open source project ; discuss & share
• battlesnake ... in groups competing against each other, perhaps 2nd half of term

Which approach has been most useful to you and/or would you like to see more of?

• working on your own
• working with another student
• working with a group of students, on a longer project
• seeing me talk through a problem in class
• looking at more programming languages
• studying other people's code (e.g. Norvig)

Calendar :

 due date
 Sep 07        fizzbuzz
     14        advent of code 1   
     21        advent of code 2
     28        advent of code 3
 Oct 05      
     12              
               --- long weekend between 1st & 2nd seven weeks --
     19      
     26                                   project progress report
 Nov 02      
     09  
     16  
     23      
     30                                   project poster
 Dec 07  

attachments

		last modified	size
	maze.py	Tue Sep 28 2021 05:46 pm	580B
	yield.py	Tue Sep 28 2021 05:46 pm	154B