Session Details

Week 3, Session 8 — Mon Sep 21

Reading

  1. 6.5-6.7, 7.1-7.3
    (26 pages)

HW Due

  1. HW 7

Topics

  1. Functions that return results
  2. Optional parameters
  3. Decision structures ("if" statements)

Outline

  1. [15 min] Hand-back quizzes, discuss questions
  2. [10 min] Function parameters, return value review
  3. [ 5 min] Optional parameters
  4. [20 min] Three Squares exercise
  5. [ 5 min] Break
  6. [ 5 min] Intro. to if statements
  7. [ 5 min] Comparison, including experimenting with strings
  8. [ 5 min] if-else statements
  9. [10 min] Nesting vs. if-elif-else statements
  10. [25 min] countPassFail exercise

More functions and if statements

HW Assigned

  1. HW 8