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.

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: Escape "The Curse of the Temple"
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.

String data:"Roll dice and cooperate with other players to escape the dungeon." "Beware you must escape the dungeon before the time runs out!"
Integer and/or float data: Maximum number of players "5" Play time in minutes "10"
Boolean data: In order to move pieces on the board you must roll a specified combination of symbols. If you do not roll this combination of symbols you cannot move forward.
Array data: Dice faces ["running man", "key", "torch", "curse mask", "golden mask"] Game contents ["board", "dice", "timer", "player icon", "jewels", "modifier cards", "jewels"]
Hash or Object data: {"board cards": 19, "dice": 30, "player icon": 5, "jewels": 100, "modifier cards": 14} {"Start point cards": 6, "cards with 2 doors": 4, "cards with 1 door": 3, "cards with 3 doors": 3, "cards with 4 doors": 4}

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.
Restraunts is an example of real life iteration. To use the format from session 2 the collection could be tables, for each table you take an order, prepare/serve food, clean the table and repeat.
Doing laundry is another example. each load can be considered the collection, for each piece of clothing you will fold, sort by type and put away. On to the next load of laundry.
Food prep for the week can also be considered an iteration. For one week you need to plan, buy ingredients, prepare ingredients, cook, and store food. Once the food is finished repeate.
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.
Email CC I think is an example of iteration in programming. Take a collection of contacts, write an email, the email client will then attach the email to each address and send to the corresponding contact.
Calculating expenses for a month. The collection would be your budget. For each week collect reciepts, add up the total and subtract from your set budget for the month. repeat each month.
Alphabetizing a student roster. The collection would be the names of students in class. For each student take the last name and determine its relation to the letter A then move to the next student.

4. Modify your Bash Profile (10 min)

Watch this video 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:

Nice work, @ckoga!

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