Module 2: Control Structures

Making choices and repeating things

Language Topics

• Conditional statements (if/elif/else)
• Relational operators (==,!=,<,>,etc)
• Logical operators (and,or,not) and complex conditions
• while loops, break and continue

Textbook chapters 4 and 5

Assignment: Tic Tac Toe

Due Tuesday, 10/11

Module 1 Recap

Preparation and Exam

Nested Loops Exercise

• Textbook 5.8

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Assignments

• Bring Nested Loops Exercise to class Thu
• Mentoring meetings
• Catch up: fundamentals practice:
  • Spend time coding!
  • Textbook Challenge Exercises for chapters 1, 2, 3, 5.5, 5.6
  • Any Python textbook, see notes on 9/15 for exam topics

Decision Making

Cipher Lab Recap

Conditional (if) statements

• Textbook 4.1,4.2

The Great Game

• Automating the Game
• Automating the Player

Assignments

• Bring a complete Automating the Player algorithm (human level) to lab

Lab

Collage showcase

Tic Tac Toe playoff

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Lab assignments (due Thu)

• Tic Tac Toe Lab
• Practice Problems I
• Practice Problems II

Repetitive Actions

Conditional (if) statements con't

Lab Follow-Up

• Printing the board
• Updating the board

Hangman Example

• Pseudo-code algorithms
• Identifying constant and variable data (state)
• while loops
  • Textbook 5.1-5.3,5.7
• hangman.py

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Assignments

• Finish labs for Thu

Finishing Hangman

• Using while-True and break
• Counting loops vs. for all items in a list
• Effective testing
• Debugging strategies: narrowing in

if-else trees

• Textbook 4.3

Lab

Complex conditions

• Textbook 4.4

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Lab assignments (due Thu)

• Car Insurance Lab
• Practice Problems III
• Practice Problems IV

Complex Decisions

Winning Tic Tac Toe

• Enumerating the win conditions
• Complex conditions
• Generalizing regularity
• Avoiding hardcoded data

Practice Problems Review

Practice Problems Review

File I/O

• Textbook chapter 12

Lab

Module 2 Exam

format()

• Note: Textbook (3.7) uses old-style formatting, do not follow

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Lab assignments (due Thu)

• File I/O Lab