Informatics 42 • Winter 2012 • David G. Kay • UC Irvine

Ninth (and last!) Homework

Get your work checked and signed off by a classmate, then show it to your TA in lab by Monday, March 12. This assignment is short; use the remaining time to complete the lab assignment.

(a) Suppose you have an electronic cookbook that contains a list of recipes defined as follows:

     Recipe = namedtuple('Recipe', 'title ingredients steps')

     r = Recipe('Thai Iced Coffee', ['coffee', 'sugar', 'condensed milk', 'ice'],
                ['brew coffee', 'mix with sugar and condensed-milk',
                 'pour coffee mixture over ice'])

(a.1) Define the function is_ingredient_in_recipe as described below.

def is_ingredient_in_recipe(r: Recipe, ing: str) -> bool:
   """ Return true if the string occurs in the recipe's ingredients list """

(a.2) Define the function are_all_steps_short as described below.

def are_all_steps_short(r: Recipe, limit: int) -> bool:
   """ Return true if every step in the recipe is no longer than the limit """

Try to do this using list comprehensions or map/filter/reduce (and remember that reduce has to be imported from the functools library). [Hint: First, try defining count_words and is_step_short, each of which can be done in one line.]

(a.3) Define the function is_recipe_simple as described below.

def is_recipe_simple(r: Recipe) -> bool:
   """ Return true if recipe has 10 or fewer steps and each step is
       no longer than 6 words. """

(a.4) The first word of each step is a verb (e.g., bake, mix, grill); we can call that the technique involved in that step. Define the function does_recipe_use_technique as described below.

def does_recipe_use_technique(r: Recipe, technique: str) -> bool:
   """ Return true if at least one step has the specified technique """

(a.5) Now, suppose you want to select recipes that will help you practice a particular technique. Define the function simple_practice_recipes as described below, using previously defined functions where appropriate. Try to use list comprehensions and/or map/filter/reduce.

def simple_practice_recipes(rList: 'list of Recipe', technique: str) -> 'list of Recipe':
   """ Return a list of the recipes from the input that are simple
       and that use the specified technique"""

(a.6) Most of you probably recognize this problem from a quiz last quarter. Now that you've had some experience in two programming languages, what do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of programming in each? (You don't have to write anything formal for this; just spend a little time reflecting on the issues.)

(b) Be able to give answers to questions like these about the theme park simulator. Feel free to talk with your classmates about them, but realize that the point isn't to have the answer but to know how to get the answer, especially if similar questions should show up on exams.

• The function parseAttractionFile reads attractions into a dictionary, then converts the dictionary into a list and passes the list to the AmusementPark. What data structure does the AmusementPark useto store the attractions, and why?
  
  
• The function parseCustomerFile reads customers into a dictionary (why?), then converts the dictionary values into a list and passes it to the AmusementParkSimulation. What data structure(s) does the AmusementParkSimulation use to store the customers, and why? What other data structures is a customer part of during a day in the park?
  
  
• What data structure(s) does the simulator use to store the rides a customer has visited?

Written by David G. Kay, Winter 2005; modified Winter 2006 and Winter 2012.