Module 2: Python Fundamentals

For this week's exercise and assignment, there were numerous operations broken down into four steps. These steps included creating a string variable, creating a list, creating loops and iterating variables, and removing specific variables.

In Step 1, I created a string of my full name,  split the string to separate my individual names, and then used the index function to return a specific name. It is important to note that one uses 0 to return the first name and -1 to return the last portion of a string.

Step 2 required me to determine errors in a random dice game. This required me to first import the random module, which is the first line of code. I then looked at the script provided in the assignment to find two errors. A few things to note in errors: Ensure your quotation marks are not confused with contractions as it will confuse the program and return an error, make sure the case (upper/lower) is consistent, especially when naming a variable, and watch indention.

Step 3 caused me quite a bit of problems, as I overthought everything. In this scenario, I had to create a loop using a while statement and then append numbers to it until I reached 20 separate numbers. Again, this script required me to import the random module as the first step. One lesson I learned is that if you want to break the loop, the break must have the same indention as the loop. Otherwise, Python will return an error. I also learned that there are many different ways to arrive at a break statement.

For Step 4, I used the numbers generated in Step 3 (or I could have added this script to the script in Step 3). I then chose an integer as an unlucky number, used the while loop to remove the unlucky number, and then created a new list. This was fairly straightforward and of no issue. However, the next logical step in the future could be to remove the unlucky number and replace it so that there were still 20 numbers in the list.

Below are the results of my script, which has the return of each script. The explanations are written above, so I will not repeat them.

Script for Module 2. This shows the return items for each step in the assignment as explained above.

Flow Chart for Step 4.