INF1340H F
Programming for Data Science
Week 3
Amirsina Eskandarifar
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Condition
If
Elif
Else
Input
String functions
Example
Write a program to ask the user to insert a number, and then print
how many 0s their number has.
Now write a program to ask 3 times the same question, and every
time print number of 0s (what about 100 times?)
What should we do if we want to
run a block of code repeatedly?
Loop
Do you want to do the same thing multiple times?
Is there any repetition in your logic?
Do you want to iterate on something?
You should answer this:
When to start/when to stop?
Loop: example i=1
Let’s look at the previous
example:
Write a program to ask the user i <= 10
for a number 10 times and each
time print number of 0s.
What is iterator?
Iterator is a variable that changes every
iteration (or every loop), and the loop is
dependent on this variable to stop or
continue. a =input(‘num?’)
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i = i+1
Loop: example
x = input(‘what is your
number?’)
i=1
Sometimes you may use iterator for more
than just counting your iterations:
Write a program to get a number from user and
then print its first 10 exponentiation:
i <= 10
x^1, x^2, x^3, …, x^10
print(x**i)
i = i+1
Loop: while
While is a kind of loop that continues as long as the condition is true
Let’s see how while loop looks like in Python
while (condition):
executable code 1
executable code 2
.
.
.
executable code out of loop
Be careful! The while loop may go forever, unless you change the factors in the
condition
Be careful! The indentation and tabulation is important to Python to understand
what block of code is part of the loop, what is not.
Loop: for
for is another kind of loop in python that its iterator iterates over
a sequence of data in each iteration:
for (i in [1,2,3,4,5]):
executable code 1 (like print(i))
executable code 2
.
.
.
executable code out of loop
range(0,5) -> range is kind of sequential data type in python to
define sequence of numbers easier
Loop: range
range is kind of sequential data type in python to define
sequence of numbers easier
a sequence includes the first number, and excludes the last number
for (i in [1,2,3,4,5]):
for (i in range(?,?)):
Loop: practice
Write a program that:
1- Ask the user for multiple numbers until they insert 000, and
reserve all inserted values
2- Then, find and print the summation and average of inserted
numbers
3- Then, find and print the min & max
Loop: practice 2
Write a program that:
1- Ask the user for both a sentence and a letter
2- Then check if the sentence has that letter
3- Also count number of appearance of that letter
Obviously, don’t use built-in string functions or membership
operators
Nested Loop
Why not having a loop inside another loop?
The iterator of inner loop will be initialized again for each iteration of
outer loop
Write a program to print 10x10 multiplication chart
Nested Loop: Practice
Write a program that:
1- Ask the user for both a sentence and a word
2- Find out if the word is in the sentence or not (don’t use built-in string
functions or membership operators)
We can do pretty much everything
now
With what we have learnt so far, we can write any program and
implement any logic or algorithm!
Sort Algorithms:
Bubble, Selection, and Insertion
Sorts
There is an array of number, and we want to sort them
1 9 2 8 5 4 3
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