Session 2 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 2 hours.

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1. Documentation and Googling (60 min)

Documentation of a langauge, framework, or tool is the information that describes its functionality. For this part of the practice tasks, you're going to practice digging into documentation and other reference material.

NOTE: The linked documentation for each question below is a good starting place, but you should also be practicing your Googling skills and sifting through the results to find relevant and helpful sites.

In your own words, what does the Ruby array drop method do? As you're explaining, be sure to provide an example. Your answer:
What did you Google to help you with this task, and how did you pick your results?
In your own words, what does the Ruby string split method do? As you're explaining, be sure to provide an example. Your answer:
What did you Google to help you with this task, and how did you pick your results?
In your own words, what does the JavaScript array slice method do? As you're explaining, be sure to provide an example. Your answer:
What did you Google to help you with this task, and how did you pick your results?

2. Data Types (15 min)

Imagine that you're taking your favorite board game and turning it into a computer-based game.

Name of board game: ______
Use the space below to categorize game data into each of the following data types. You should have a minimum of two pieces of data for each category.

String data:
Integer and/or float data:
Boolean data:
Array data:
Hash or Object data:

3. Iteration (30 min)

Create a list below of three real-life situations where iteration is used. For each situation, explain why it would be an example of iteration.
Create a list below of three programming situations where iteration would be used. For each situation, explain why it would be an example of iteration.

4. Identifying Mistakes (15 min)

The following code examples each contain a mistake. Describe the problem for each.

Original	Mistakes	Problem
students.each do \|student\| puts "Welcome, #{student}" end	students.each do \|student\| puts "Welcome, #(student)" end	The problem is...
.main-content { font-size: 12px; border: 3px solid black; font-family: sans-serif; }	.main-content { font-size: 12px; border: 3px solid black; font-family: sans serif; }	The problem is...
log(2, (1022 * ((score - min(score) over ()) / ((max(score) over ()) - (min(score) over ()))) + 2)::numeric)	log(2, (1022 * ((score - min(score) over ()) / ((min(score) over ()) - (min(score) over ()))) + 2)::numeric)	The problem is...
arr.product(arr).reject { \|a,b\| a == b }.any? { \|a,b\| a + b == n }	arr.product(arr).reject { \|a,b\| b == b }.any? { \|a,b\| a + b == n }	The problem is...
class Cat attr_reader :color, :name def initialize(data) @name = data[:name] @color = data[:color] end end	class Cat attr_reader :color, :name def intialize(data) @name = data[:name] @color = data[:color] end end	The problem is...

5. Modify your Bash Profile (10 min)

Watch this video and follow each step to modify your own bash profile. As mentioned in the video, you will need this snippet below:

# get current branch in git repo
function parse_git_branch() {
  BRANCH=`git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/\1/'`
  if [ ! "${BRANCH}" == "" ]
  then
    STAT=`parse_git_dirty`
    echo "[${BRANCH}${STAT}]"
  else
    echo ""
  fi
}

# get current status of git repo
function parse_git_dirty {
  status=`git status 2>&1 | tee`
  dirty=`echo -n "${status}" 2> /dev/null | grep "modified:" &> /dev/null; echo "$?"`
  untracked=`echo -n "${status}" 2> /dev/null | grep "Untracked files" &> /dev/null; echo "$?"`
  ahead=`echo -n "${status}" 2> /dev/null | grep "Your branch is ahead of" &> /dev/null; echo "$?"`
  newfile=`echo -n "${status}" 2> /dev/null | grep "new file:" &> /dev/null; echo "$?"`
  renamed=`echo -n "${status}" 2> /dev/null | grep "renamed:" &> /dev/null; echo "$?"`
  deleted=`echo -n "${status}" 2> /dev/null | grep "deleted:" &> /dev/null; echo "$?"`
  bits=''
  if [ "${renamed}" == "0" ]; then
    bits=">${bits}"
  fi
  if [ "${ahead}" == "0" ]; then
    bits="*${bits}"
  fi
  if [ "${newfile}" == "0" ]; then
    bits="+${bits}"
  fi
  if [ "${untracked}" == "0" ]; then
    bits="?${bits}"
  fi
  if [ "${deleted}" == "0" ]; then
    bits="x${bits}"
  fi
  if [ "${dirty}" == "0" ]; then
    bits="!${bits}"
  fi
  if [ ! "${bits}" == "" ]; then
    echo " ${bits}"
  else
    echo ""
  fi
}

export PS1="\u\w\`parse_git_branch\`$ "

5. Questions/Comments/Confusions

If you have any questions, comments, or confusions from the any of the readings that you would an instructor to address, list them below:

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