What Did we Learn and What to Expect in Assignment 6

Summary

Students are now expected to be able to:

• Evaluate the readability, complexity and performance of a function.
• Write docstrings for functions following the NumPy/SciPy format.
• Write comments within a function to improve readability.
• Write and design functions with default arguments.
• Explain the importance of scoping and environments in Python as they relate to functions.
• Formulate test cases to prove a function design specification.
• Use assert statements to formulate a test case to prove a function design specification.
• Use test-driven development principles to define a function that accepts parameters, returns values and passes all tests.
• Handle errors gracefully via exception handling.

The assignment will concentrate on the learning objectives as well as building knowledge on existing concepts.

Attribution

The cereal dataset:

“80 Cereals” (c) by Chris Crawford is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

On to Assignment 6!