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Exercise 2

This document describes an assignment to write 4 functions in Python to calculate percentages, term marks, final marks, and whether a student passed a course based on their marks. Global variables are provided to use in the calculations. Students should follow a design recipe approach and reuse functions where possible to keep the code concise.

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Exercise 2

This document describes an assignment to write 4 functions in Python to calculate percentages, term marks, final marks, and whether a student passed a course based on their marks. Global variables are provided to use in the calculations. Students should follow a design recipe approach and reuse functions where possible to keep the code concise.

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CSCA08 Exercise 2

Due: Sept 30, 2016. 5:00pm

This week, we’re working with functions and the design recipe. Your code will be auto-marked, so we won’t
have any way of knowing whether you actually followed the recipe, but a) if you decide not to follow it, you’re
only harming yourself, b) your TAs will not help you with step n of the recipe if you haven’t completed step
n − 1, and c) we reserve the right to randomly check your commenting and design on any exercise with no
prior warning.
For this exercise, you must add 4 functions to the file ex2.py1 . (As always, all file and function names must
be exactly as described in this handout). I’ve left some global variables for you to use in your calculations
at the top of the file, feel free to play around with them, (you should be using these in your calculations),
but return them to their original values before submitting.

1 Percentage
Complete a function called percentage, which takes as its parameters two floats 2 , and returns the a number
representing the first parameter as a percentage of the second parameter. We’ve provided you with the first
few steps of the Design Recipe to get you started.

2 Term Mark
Write a function called term work mark, which calculates your term mark (as a contribution to your final
grade) given your marks on all of the coursework components). Using the default weights this will return a
maximum result of 55 (since the exam is worth 45% of your final grade):

• your mark on assignment 0 (by default this is out of 25)


• your mark on assignment 1 (by default this is out of 50)
• your mark on assignment 2 (by default this is out of 100)
• your mark on the exercises (by default this is out of 10)

• your mark on the quizzes (by default this it out of 5)


• your term test marks (by default this is out of 50)3

In the starter code provided in ex2.py, there are already several global variables that you will need to
compute this score. The contribution of each piece of coursework is computed as:

mark−you−received
maximum−mark
∗ weight

Your coursework mark is the sum of these component contributions. An example output is given below:

>>> term_work_mark(25, 50, 100, 10, 5, 50)


55.0
>>> term_work_mark(20, 45, 70, 8, 4, 40)
43.9
1 there are already two functions and some global variables in the starter code, you do not need to edit this part of the file

in any way
2 remember, an int is just a special type of a float
3 I’m not guaranteeing that these numbers will be correct for the real course, that’s why I’ve left the variables there for you

to change.

1
Hint:

Rather than writing the same computation over and over, you can make your life easier by using a helper
function... perhaps some nice person may have left a useful function in the file before uploading it...

3 Final Mark
Write a function called final mark, which performs a similar calculation to term work mark, but takes an
additional parameter, your final exam mark (be default, out of 100), and returns your final mark for the
term out of 100.
An example output is given below:

>>> final_mark(25, 50, 100, 10, 5, 50,100)


100.0
>>> final_mark(20, 45, 70, 8, 4, 40, 73)
76.75

Hint:

Be lazy! If you use the other functions you’ve written, this shouldn’t take more than 3-4 lines of code.

4 See If You Pass


Write a function called is pass that takes the same parameters as final mark, and returns a boolean
representing whether you passed the course. Remember that in order to pass the course you must get a final
overall mark of 50 or greater, and a final exam mark of 40 or greater.
An example output is given below:

>>> is_pass(20, 45, 70, 8, 4, 40, 41)


True
>>> is_pass(20, 45, 70, 8, 4, 40, 39)
False
>>> is_pass(10, 21, 12, 2, 1, 15, 23)
False

Hint:

See hint for the previous section. 3-4 lines of code should be plenty. Don’t do more work than you need to.

5 Testing it All Out


Now for the fun bit. On the course website is a file called ex2 gui.py. Put this in the same directory as your
ex2.py file and run it. If you’ve done everything correctly, it should provide a GUI4 for you to test your
functions. You don’t need to edit the code in the file or even read it (I wouldn’t expect you to understand
most of it yet anyway). But for those of you who are desperate to build something with buttons... click
away!

4 Graphical User Interface

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