[Tutor] Python problem

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 23:42:04 +0000, "Moore, Colleen"
<moore.3972 at buckeyemail.osu.edu> declaimed the following:

>Hi, I figured I could post a question here that I wasn't sure how to solve. Below are the problems:
>

	And what is your question... You've posted three assignments (at least,
to me they are as they each specify a /separate/ program, and not just
three phases within a single program). You have not stated where you are
stuck, nor shown any code. We do not "do homework" for you -- you must make
the attempt, show us the code and any error messages (DO NOT ATTACH SCREEN
GRABS -- they get stripped; cut&paste the TEXT into a message), and we may
guide you into correct understanding of the construct giving problems...

>Question 2. Write a Python program to create a list of 1000 random points. These points must be objects of the Point class. The X and Y coordinates of these points must be random float between a range and any arbitrary range will be fine. (Hint: random.uniform can be used to generate a random floating point value between any two given numbers.)
>

	Hmmm, what was "Question 1"?

	The above assumes you know how to perform basic Python logic... IE:
loop over a section of code for 1000 times; declaring simple Classes and
creating instances of that class; accumulate the 1000 points into some
structure. Actually, given the separate program phrasing -- said
"accumulation" doesn't even have to be internal; you could write out the
coordinates to a file which the following two programs read... Granted,
unless one is using pickle or related to save the points, one loses the
entire Class construct -- generating a "Point" just involves generating two
random values and writing them out as a line to some text file.

	If you haven't learned these simple tasks, you may want to ask
yourself: Do I belong in this course?

>Question 3. After you finish the above, write a program to print out the number of points that fall in the left half of the area. If a point is exactly on the middle of the area, you are free to decide to either count it in the left half, or right half. Please note in your program how which is the case.
>
	And as mentioned above, this assumes some means of passing the "Points"
of the first assignment into the second. Without using pickle, that means
reading each line of the file, parsing out two coordinates, and recreating
the Point instance... All to simply look at the X coordinate and determine
if it is left or right of the midpoint range (which has to somehow be
carried over from the first assignment -- maybe written as the first row of
the data file).

	This time, instead of a definite loop (first assignment: 1000 points),
one likely has an indefinite loop (loop until end of file), reading a line,
determining if it is left/right (and why bother with creating a Point
instance when you throw it away on the next iteration) summing how many are
on each side.

>Question 4. Write a Python program to draw the points for the above question. Points counted as falling into the left are rendered in darkgrey and right in lightgrey. Submit both your code and a screenshot of the plotting result.

	This is the only assignment where a Points class might be of use, as
most plotting packages want ALL the data in one chunk. You are basically
repeating the second assignment, but this time rather than counting
left/right, you may be accumulating the points into some structure that can
be fed to the plotting package (and that may not want "Points" per se, but
two vectors: one of only X coordinates, and the other of the Y
coordinates).

	BUT! WHAT TYPE OF PLOT IS REQUIRED? Simple histogram? (In this case,
you ARE duplicating the previous assignment -- the only thing changing is
that rather than printing numeric results you are creating a two column
histogram with the counts. Side by side scatter-plots (dots for each point,
taking into account the left/right split, and using Y coordinate for height
of the dot in the plot)? Scatter-plot with connecting lines showing the
order the points were created?


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