This entire week was spent working on Project One of
Python. It was a synthesis of functions
and graphics of the sort we had learned in the preceding weeks; as such, we
didn’t actually learn anything new this week.
The project involved creating a program to aid in the launch of
projectiles from catapults for a given target and angle by giving the necessary
velocity; this was done using a formula for projectile motion. Then, we graphed the flight path as if it was
a straight line. Finally, there were two
extra-credit problems- one involving the determination of whether a fish was
ascending, diving, or actually random noise, and the other involving the
determination of whether and by how much a car was speeding.
We spent three days on this; for me, and several others, it
took 1.5. I’m not sure if this is due to
a disparity in problem-solving speed (though it’d be odd to have such a big
gap) or simply because of overcompensation for the possibility of
slowness. In either case, I think the
near-absence of homework as a means of making work up is severely hurting this
class’s pace. Which is OK; I’d much
rather have a relaxed pace than tons of homework.
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