CSC111 Homework 4 2014

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 12:26, 18 February 2014 (EST)

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This assignment can be do individually or in Programming-Pair mode. You are not restricted in your selection of a partner if you are working in pair. The assignment is due on Thursday evening, February 27th, 2014, at midnight.

Problem #1

Rewrite the Rock-Scissors-Paper game using while loops. Call your program hw4a.py.

Requirements

• The program will stop only once the difference in score between computer and human players is 3.
• You should not include the mug of Homework 3 in this program/game.
• The program will keep on prompting the user if the input is not one of 'P', 'R', or 'S'. The program will accept valid letters in lower or upper case, and with extra spaces before or after the letter.
• The program will indicate the winner of each round.
• The program will output a final string at the end, when the difference in score is 3, pointing out and congratulating the winner.

Problem #2: Magic Lily

Assume that we have a put a magic lily in Paradise Pond. The magic lily grows in surface every 24 hours. When we first put it in the pond, it is only 1 square inch in area. We approximate the size of the pond to be 31,416 square feet.

We assume that the lily is magic is that it can cover areas that are as irregular as the pond is. It's magic, remember?

Write a program that uses a while loop and that outputs the number of days it will take for the lily to cover the whole pond. Make your program output all the known information and the final result (the actual result shown here is incorrect, on purpose).

Magic Lily
Initial size: 1 square inch 
Growth rate: 2 times its size in 1 day
Pond size: 31416 square feet
Total number of days required to cover the whole pond (or more): 16 days

Call your program hw4b.py.

Additional Information

Computation

Those of you who are math inclined can probably figure out an equation giving the size of the lily after some number of days. You are welcome to code this equation to verify the output of your while loop, but you need to also compute the solution using a while loop that doubles the size of the lily every iteration.

Conversion

Use the Web to convert square feet into square inches. Wolfram Alpha is a great resource for every type of translation from one unit into another.

Where did Paradise Pond get its name?

Could it be the Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind? You can read all about it here!

Approximating the Area of the Pond

I simply tried to cover a map of the pond with disks that had a diameter of 200 ft. Some disks overlap, some area of the pond is not covered, and I tried to make both the overlap and the non-covered area about the same. I counted 16 disks.

Submission

Submit your programs to cs.smith.edu/~thiebaut/111b/submit4.php.