Mr Pearce's 10Prog

Loops Today we'll have some more practice at for and while loops.  There is a sheet in the classroom with lots of examples to play with.

If practice Write a program that takes the speed limit and the car's speed as the inputs and reports how big a fine and how many demerit points the driver gets. We will work through this program together as an example of how to tackle a programming task. First plan how your program will work... What would be good tools for this  ? What information do you need to complete the task ? Are there any steps that you don't know how to program in Python ? How are you going to test your program as it develops ? What values are you going to use to test that your program is working properly ? Some possible platforms for doing our planning in: Microsoft Word / Google Docs for writing and keeping all our planning together LucidChart extension in Chrome for doing flowcharts Pen and paper What we did We put a title on our page so we knew what we were doing We wrote our interpretation of the task. Writing out the brief in our own words is a good idea to ensure that what...