lab.md

Lab 2.04 - Food Chooser

1. In your notebook

For each example below, predict what will be printed. Run the program and write down the output in your notebook.

Example 1

    a = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
    print(a[0])
    print(a[3])

Example 2

    a = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
    print(a[len(a) - 3])

Example 3

    a = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
    print(a[len(a) - 6])

Example 4

    a = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
    a[3] = 'haha'
    print(a)

2. Re-create a Game Show program, this time using lists and indexes

• Declare 10 prizes, stored in a single list variable.
• User picks a number.
• Print prize associated with the door user picked.

3. Create a quiz

Create a food quiz using lists and indexes.

1. List of 6 different foods.
2. Ask the user 8 general questions to find out what their favorite food is from the list.
3. Update a score list for each food. Print out the user's favorite food based on the score list.

Hint: Use a search engine to look up an efficient way to find the largest number in a Python list.

Starter code here

Bonus

• Use the score list to print out the user's second favorite food as well as the favorite.
• Tied scores can be handled in any reasonable way -- e.g., print the tied-score food item earliest on the list as the "favorite", and the next item as the "second favorite".
• Alternatively, check for the existence of a tie, and acknowledge that situation when it happens by printing a separate message.

Hint: as with the favorite score, using syntax we've learned so far, we can only find this value if we know the length of our food list, using a series of if...elif statements. Alternate methods that use much less code can be found with an Internet search. Some of these methods will be covered in later units.