# Session 2 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 2 hours. 

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### 1. Documentation and Googling (75 min)

Documentation of a langauge, framework, or tool is the information that describes its functionality. For this part of the practice tasks, you're going to practice digging into documentation and other reference material. 

**NOTE:** The linked documentation for each question below is a good starting place, but you should also be practicing your Googling skills and sifting through the results to find relevant and helpful sites. 

- [x] In your own words, what does the Ruby array [drop](https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.4.0/Array.html#method-i-drop) method do? As you're explaining, be sure to provide an example. Your answer: The drop method will remove the amount of elements you decide from the beginning of an array.

- [x] What did you Google to help you with this task, and how did you pick your results? ruby documentation array methods

- [x] In your own words, what does the Ruby array [push](https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.4.0/Array.html#method-i-push) method do? As you're explaining, be sure to provide an example. Your answer: The push method will push an element to the end of an array. For example if you have the array vowels = [ "A", "E", "I"] and do vowels.push("O").push("U") you should get vowels = [ "A", "E", "I", "O", "U"] 

- [x] What did you Google to help you with this task, and how did you pick your results? I searched "ruby documentation push method" without the quotes, and decided to use ruby's actual documentation page as it should have up to date information.

- [x] In your own words, what does the Ruby string [split](https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.4.0/String.html#method-i-split) method do? As you're explaining, be sure to provide an example. Your answer: The split method will split up a string into individual strings based on a space. For example. "I love to eat tacos".split will yield you ["I", "love", "to", "eat", "tacos"]

- [x] What did you Google to help you with this task, and how did you pick your results? I didn't google this time as I already had up Ruby's documentation page and just looked up #split within it.

- [x] In your own words, what does the JavaScript array [slice](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/slice) method do? As you're explaining, be sure to provide an example. Your answer: Slice seems to remove a number of elements within an array from the beginning. If you have an array days = ["Monday", "Tuesday", Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"] and do console.log(days.slice(3)) your expected output should be days = ["Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"]

- [x] What did you Google to help you with this task, and how did you pick your results? I searched "JavaScript array slice method" without the quotes and decided to use Mozillas page as it was mentioned in session 2. 

- [x] In your own words, what does the JavaScript object [values](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/values) method do? As you're explaining, be sure to provide an example. Your answer: Values method will output an objects values in an array for you to see. Example:
const pizzaSize = {
  personal: "8in"
  small: "12in"
  medium: "16in"
  large: "20in"
}

console.log(Object.values(pizzaSize));
//Your output will be: Array ["8in", "12in", 16in", "20in"]

- [ ] What did you Google to help you with this task, and how did you pick your results? I searched "JavaScript object values method" and found the Mozilla documentation page mentioned in session two.


### 2. Data Types (15 min)

Imagine that you're taking your favorite board game and turning it into a computer-based game. 

- [ ] Name of board game: Battleship

- [ ] Use the space below to categorize game data into each of the following data types. You should have a **minimum of two** pieces of data for each category. 

1. String data: "Hit", "Miss"
1. Integer and/or float data: Life = 100, Damage = 0
1. Boolean data: Your turn? True/False, Were you hit? True/False
1. Array data: Your position on the board = [A0, B0], Your fleet = ["carrier", "battleship", "cruiser", "submarie", "destroyer"]
1. Hash or Object data: Fleet = {
  "carrier": 5, "battleship": 4, "cruiser": 3, "submarine": 3, "destroyer": 2
}

### 3. Iteration (30 min)

- [ ] Create a list below of **three real-life situations** where iteration is used. For each situation, explain why it would be an example of iteration.
- Checking out library materials. You repeat the same task of scanning an item until all your items are checked out to you. It's a repeated process
- Graded assignments that you want in order from least to greatest. You check each grade to the next and place them in their proper order.
- Shopping online. When you have a cart with items and are ready to checkout the cart will iterate through each items price to give you a total.

- [ ] Create a list below of **three programming situations** where iteration would be used. For each situation, explain why it would be an example of iteration.
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### 4. Modify your Bash Profile (10 min)

- [ ] Watch [this video](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s_CDBnxHSA0HDWldjosulthAvBi-C-d5/view?usp=sharing) and follow each step to modify your own bash profile. As mentioned in the video, you will need this snippet below:

```
# get current branch in git repo
function parse_git_branch() {
  BRANCH=`git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/\1/'`
  if [ ! "${BRANCH}" == "" ]
  then
    STAT=`parse_git_dirty`
    echo "[${BRANCH}${STAT}]"
  else
    echo ""
  fi
}

# get current status of git repo
function parse_git_dirty {
  status=`git status 2>&1 | tee`
  dirty=`echo -n "${status}" 2> /dev/null | grep "modified:" &> /dev/null; echo "$?"`
  untracked=`echo -n "${status}" 2> /dev/null | grep "Untracked files" &> /dev/null; echo "$?"`
  ahead=`echo -n "${status}" 2> /dev/null | grep "Your branch is ahead of" &> /dev/null; echo "$?"`
  newfile=`echo -n "${status}" 2> /dev/null | grep "new file:" &> /dev/null; echo "$?"`
  renamed=`echo -n "${status}" 2> /dev/null | grep "renamed:" &> /dev/null; echo "$?"`
  deleted=`echo -n "${status}" 2> /dev/null | grep "deleted:" &> /dev/null; echo "$?"`
  bits=''
  if [ "${renamed}" == "0" ]; then
    bits=">${bits}"
  fi
  if [ "${ahead}" == "0" ]; then
    bits="*${bits}"
  fi
  if [ "${newfile}" == "0" ]; then
    bits="+${bits}"
  fi
  if [ "${untracked}" == "0" ]; then
    bits="?${bits}"
  fi
  if [ "${deleted}" == "0" ]; then
    bits="x${bits}"
  fi
  if [ "${dirty}" == "0" ]; then
    bits="!${bits}"
  fi
  if [ ! "${bits}" == "" ]; then
    echo " ${bits}"
  else
    echo ""
  fi
}

export PS1="\u\w\`parse_git_branch\`$ "
```

### 5. Questions/Comments/Confusions

If you have any questions, comments, or confusions from the any of the readings that you would an instructor to address, list them below:

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