CSC1002-Computational

Laboratory
Kinley Lam

CSC1002/CUHK(SZ)/SSE
 CSC 1002 Week 1
Programming background
editor & tools
hello world
past assignments at a glance
assessment

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 No tutorials this week !!!

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References (books)

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References

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python https://www.python.org/

search for
“Free eBook”
Follow “Python Books” and then
“IntroductoryBooks” for a list of
reference books and free e-book(s)
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Free ebooks via Python official website

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Programming Language

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hello world
using notepad & word

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hello world

Write a “hello world”

program

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Why “Hello World”

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Brian Kernighan

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Editor & tools

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IDE (Integrated Development Environment)

• Uniform interface – editing, execution and shell

• IntelliSense – auto code completion, quick info, parameter info … etc
• Code navigation – file explorer, code hierarchy, references, … etc
• Debugging, Source control, Refactoring, Unit testing … etc
• Extensions (tools, language support, interfaces .. Etc
• Many many others

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Source Code Editor

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Why Visual Studio Code
• Light weight
• Simplicity
• Cross platform (windows, macOS & linux)
• Integrated (debugging, source control, refactoring, auto code
completion)
• Universal (python, C/C++, C#, html, java, swift, php, SQL …)
• Lots of extensions !!!!!
• FREE and back by Microsoft !!!

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Specialized editors

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 IDE – what is it?

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 IDE

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Past Assignments

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Past Assignments (2017-2018)

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Past Assignment (2018-2019)

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Past Assignments (2020-2021)

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Past Assignments (2021-2022)

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This Year ???

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 Teaching Plan & Assessment

Please refer to BB for more info !!!

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Python overview

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modules – reload

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__name__ == “__main__”

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Core Data Types

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python – quick overview
• Indentation

• Modules

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python – quick overview
• Strings

• Lists

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python – quick overview
• Tuples (immutable list)
• works exactly as list except that tuples are read only and parentheses “()” are
used instead of square brackets “[]”

• Dictionary

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python – quick overview
• defaultdict() – 4 x word-count implementations

A C

B D

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python – quick overview
• defaultdict() – list, dict and function

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python – quick overview
• Control Flow - if

• Control Flow - While

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python – quick overview
• Control Flow – for

• List Comprehensions

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python – quick overview
• Functional Tools – partial, map & reduce

Output

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python – quick overview
• zip & unpacking

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python – quick overview
• args & kwargs

• args = tuple of unnamed args,

• kwargs = dictionary list of named args

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indentation – code blocks
• unlike others (C, C++, Pascal, C#, Javascript, VB, … and so on),
• no curly braces, no explicit begin/end or keywords to mark where
block starts and stops
• python uses “Indentation” to group block of source codes together as
logical blocks that are conditionally executed together with controls
• spaces or tab can be used to create the indentation (usually 4 spaces)
• python uses “:” to mark beginning of a block (def, if, for, while …)
• goals: consistent, uniform, readable styles

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execution sequence

Block 1
Block 2
Block 3
Block 4
Block 5
conditional
Block 6 or controls
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C/C++
• first programmer: • 3rd programmer:
while (x>y) { while (x>y) {
……; ……;
……;
……;
……;
}
……;
..…;
……;
}

• 4th programmer:
• 2nd programmer: while (x>y) {
……;
while (x>y) { ……;
……; ……;
……; ……;
……;
……; ..…;
} ……;
}

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C/C++ - classic pitfall

which “if” is
“else” paired
with?

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python – if/else

which “if” is
“else” paired
with?

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List Iterations

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while, for & list comprehension
• Given L = [3,45,22,44,78,90,44,23], extract all even numbers into
another list

Where
else can
we put it
??

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 How to show
the list
incrementally
??

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“for” vs list comprehension

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controls – for (sequence assignment)
• Tuple

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controls – for (sequence assignment)
• List (extracting the first and last item from each sub list)

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control – ternary if

if cond:
ret = val1
ret = val1 if cond else val2
else:
ret = val2

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String Formatting

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string formatting – 2 variations
• Expression: ‘ …..%....... ’ % (values)
• Method: ‘ ……{}…… ‘.format(values)
• ‘Do you like %s or %s?’ % ( ‘apples’, ‘oranges’ )
• ‘Do you like {} or {}?’.format(‘apples’, ‘oranges’)
• ‘Do you like apples or oranges?’
• Note: both pretty much achieve same results, the format method was
introduced later and gains more popularity.

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method-call formatting – position
• relative position
‘{} {} {}’.format(‘apple’,’orange’,’grape’)

• position number
‘{0} {1} {2}’.format(‘apple’,’orange’,’grape’)

• keyword
‘{a} {o} {g}’.format( a=‘apple’, o=‘orange’, g=‘grape’ )

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example 1
• input
• a = ‘apple’, o = ‘orange’, g = ‘grape’
• output
• ‘apple-orange-apple-orange-apple-grape-orange’
• using print() statement
• print(a + ‘-’ + o + ‘-’ + a + ‘-’ + o + ‘-’ + a + ‘-’ + g + ‘-’ + o)
• using format()
• print(‘{0}-{1}-{0}-{1}-{0}-{2}-{1}’.format(a,o,g))
• print(‘{a}-{o}-{a}-{o}-{a}-{g}-{o}’.format(‘a’=a,’o’=o,’g’=g))

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example 2
• input
• total = 4356, failed=342
• output
• ‘Total 4356 samples with failures 342 cases, failure rate 12.76%’
• using print() statement
‘Total ’ + str(total) + ‘ samples with failures ‘ + str(failed) + ‘ cases, failure rate ‘ +
round(total/failed,2) + ‘%’
• using format()
‘Total {} samples with failures {} cases, failure rate {}%’.
format(total, failed, round(total/failed,2))

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Separate format string from data
• output
• ‘Total {} samples with failures {} cases, failure rate {}%’

• ‘共有{}件样品失败{}件，失败率{}％’

• ‘총 {} 건의 실패 사례 {} 건, 실패율 {}%’

• 'Total {} muestras con fallas {} casos, índice de fallas {} %'

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string at a glance

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strings
• ‘this is a string single quoted’
• “this is another string’s double quoted”
• ‘’’this is another triple quoted string’’’
• spanning multiple lines
• r”c:\dir1\dir2\dir3\file.txt”
• instead of “c:\\dir1\\dir2\\dir3\\file.txt”
• byte and unicode strings (we will skip these for this class)
• ‘string1’ “string2” ‘string3’ (a concatenated string)
• ‘string1’, “string2”, ‘string3’ (a tuple)
• strings are immutable (cannot be changed)

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 zero-based indexing

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string : indexing
• given s = “hello world”
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 . . .

h e l l o w o r l d

. . . -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1

• use module “string” and try indexing with “ascii_lowercase”

• s = string.ascii_lowercase
• indexing: s[0], s[1], s[-1], s[-2], s[26]

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string : slicing

• use module “string” and try indexing and slicing with “ascii_lowercase”
• s = string.ascii_lowercase
• slicing: s[:], s[1:], s[:-1], s[1:-1], s[-6:], s[::2], s[::-1], s[1:10:-1]
• how to reverse a string using slicing? s[::-1]

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string – common functions
• justification & conversion
• center(), ljust(), rjust(), format(), capitalize(), lower(), upper()
• search & replace
• endswith(), startswith(), find(), rfind(), replace()
• query
• isalnum(), isalpha(), isdecimal(), isdigit(), islower(), isnumeric(), isupper(), isspace()
• splitting and joining
• join(), split(), rsplit()
• stripping whitespaces
• strip(), lstrip(), rstrip()

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string - exercises
• ‘apple’.center(10), ‘apple’.rjust(10), ‘apple’.ljust(10), ‘apple’.upper()
• ‘apple’.startswith(‘ap’), ‘apple’.endswith(‘le’), ‘apple’.find(‘app’)
• ‘apple’.replace(‘app’,’peop’), ‘apple’.islower(), ‘apple’.isnumeric()
• ‘apple’.isalnum(), ‘apple’.isdigit(), ‘apple’.isdelicious()
• try to generate the following figure using series of print statements:

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• print statements
• print( (‘p’).center(11) )
• print( (‘p’*3).center(11) )
• print( (‘p’*5).center(11) )
• print( (‘p’*7).center(11) )
• print( (‘p’*9).center(11) )
• print( (‘p’*11).center(11) )
• ‘apple-orange-grape’.split(‘-’)
• ‘apple-orange-grape’.partition(‘-’)
• Note: split() splits all occurrences, while partition() only on first occurrence.
• ‘-’.join([‘apple’, ‘orange’, ‘grape’])

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range() & list()
• range() is a handy function to generate a sequence of successive
integers
• list() is used to convert the numbers from range() into a list
• range(start, end, step)
• try:
• list(range(10)) [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
• list(range(1,10)) [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
• list(range(0,10,2)) [0,2,4,6,8]
• list(range(1,10,2)) [1,3,5,7,9]

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string – exercises (using range())
• using range with a for-loop:

• for i in range(1,12,2): print( ('p'*i).center(11) )

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List - examples
List Remark
[] empty list
[ 12, ‘a’, 1.24, {‘d’:88}] List with 4 items of different types
list(range(100)) list of numbers from 0 to 99
[ [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9] ] 3 x 3 matrix

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List – slicing & indexing
• Similar to string’s

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slicing – step > 0 (given “abcdefghij”)

0 1 2 3 4 . . . -2 -1

a b c d e f g h i j
step 1
[: step 2
:]
step 3

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slicing – step < 0 (given “abcdefghij”)

-1 -2 -3 -4 -5 . . . 1 0

j i h g f e d c b a
step -1
[: step -2
:]
step -3

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List – update operations L=[1,2,3]
by slicing by method Remark
L[:0] = [9] L.insert(0,[9]) [9,1,2,3] insert front
L[1:1] = [9] L.insert(1,[9]) [1,9,2,3] insert between
L[1:2] = [9], L[1] = 9 [1,9,3] replace
L[len(L):] = [9] L.extend([9]) [1,2,3,9] insert end
L + [9]
L[0:1] = [] L.remove(1) [2,3] remove first item
del L[0]
L[len(L):] = [[9]] L.append([9]) [1,2,3, [9]] nested append
L.index(1) 0 return index of item 1
L[-1:] = []
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L.pop() [1,2] remove last item
list – other operations L = [1,2,3]

result Remark
len(L) 3 length
1 in L true membership
for x in L: print(x, end=‘,’) 1,2,3, iteration
[x*x for x in L] [1,4,9] list comprehension
L.sort(reverse=True) [3,2,1] sort in reverse order

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Tuple - examples
List Remark
() empty tuple
(12,) single item tuple (please note comma)
( 12, ‘a’, 1.24, {‘d’:88} ) tuple with 4 items of different types
tuple(range(100)) list of numbers from 0 to 99
( [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9] ) 3 x 3 matrix
list( (1,2,3,4) ) converted to list
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Tuple - notes
• Tuples work exactly the same as list except that tuples are immutable
(read only) and parentheses “()” are used instead of square brackets
“[]”
• create a tuple T = (1,2,3,4)
• type T[0]
• try assigning a new value to T[0], say T[0] = 9, what do you get?

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tuple : slicing and indexing

• similar to list’s and string’s

• indexing: s[0], s[1], s[-1], s[-2], s[26]
• slicing: s[:], s[1:], s[:-1], s[1:-1], s[-6:], s[::2], s[::-1], s[1:10:-1]?
• how to reverse items in a tuple using slicing? s[::-1]

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list – slicing exercise
• given s = list(range(100))
• use slicing to return all even numbers from s
• [0,2,4,6,8,….,98]
• use slicing to return all odd numbers from s
• [1,3,5,7,9,….,99]
• use slicing to return all odd numbers from s in reverse order
• [99,97,95,93,91,…….,1]
• use slicing to return all even numbers from s in reverse order
• [98,96,94,92,90,…….,0]
• use slicing to return the last 10 numbers from s in reverse order
• [99,98,97,96,95,94,93,92,91,90]
• use slicing to return first 3 numbers from s in reverse order
• [2,1,0]

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