Python coding Assignment
This project is intended to be a group project and all group members are expected to contribute. If you wish to do the project on your own or your section does not include enough students, then single person groups will be assigned. Group members will notify the instructor if any group member does not properly contribute and the instructor reserves the right to award points based on this feedback. All of the work on this project MUST BE ORIGINAL WORK by group members. Plagiarism (the copying of code or materials from other sources that are either online or in texts) will pursued by the instructor as a violation of academic integrity for all group members involved.
Tutorials and associated practice exercises on the Python language are included near the end of the textbook for the class. All group members are expected to spend the first few weeks of the project working through this material and becoming somewhat familiar and proficient with Python. Python can be found at https://www.python.org/downloads/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
These are also some video tutorials for beginning Python programmers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpPG0bKHYKc (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. https://psu.instructure.com/images/play_overlay.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFhiV5X5QM4 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. https://psu.instructure.com/images/play_overlay.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r1DFGpBzrc (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. https://psu.instructure.com/images/play_overlay.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow3CcOGNIss (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. https://psu.instructure.com/images/play_overlay.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4wbrwDpnIg (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. https://psu.instructure.com/images/play_overlay.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4tA5PAH9uU (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. https://psu.instructure.com/images/play_overlay.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrpq4Jmm-3I (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. https://psu.instructure.com/images/play_overlay.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE6mSBNp4YU (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. https://psu.instructure.com/images/play_overlay.png
The project’s deliverable should include about 5 pages of text (see description below), a table of contents, and a cover page. The rest of the project’s deliverable involves pages of Python source code and a printout of the code’s output.
There will be 5 main sections to the project deliverable, each with about a one-page description of a programming exercise for a novice Python programmer followed by working sample code that actually completes that exercise as written and its output.
In other words, the group is creating a set of 5 practice programming exercises in Python that are similar in concept to those found at https://knightlab.northwestern.edu/2014/06/05/five-mini-programming-projects-for-the-python-beginner/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. The group will also conduct the Python programming to complete each of the exercises they have created. Further, the code must be run and the output included after the code to prove the code runs properly.
DO NOT MERELY MODIFY AND CODE THE EXERCISES FROM THE WEBSITE. THIS WOULD BE AN EXAMPLE OF AN ACADEMIC INTEGRITY VIOLATION. Use originality and the concepts you have learned from the text and videos to create the exercises and Python code solutions/outputs.
The group project deliverable should be a professional looking document with no typos or errors. Again, it is expected that ALL GROUP MEMBERS LEARN PYTHON THROUGH THE MATERIALS IN THE TEXT AND VIDEOS AND PARTICIPATE FULLY IN THE PROJECT.
The project will be graded based on completeness, level of professional quality of the overall deliverable, the originality/quality of the programming exercises, the completeness and quality of the code that completes each programming exercise, and the completeness and correctness of the output for each code solution.
