Week 03

Basics of Programming (Python)

Create simple programs that run in the terminal

Materials for the week:

• Day 1: Expressions and control flow
• Day 2: Functions and data structures – Algorithm notation
• Day 3: OO Class

Expected skills till end of the week

• Types
• Expressions
• Variables
• Mutations
• Conditionals
• Loops
• Classes
• Objects
• Lists
• Iteration
• Casting
• understanding Reference types

Project

Palindome Kata The Kata has two part, the first one is mandatory for everybody, the second is just for students, who already know programming.

1st Part:

Create a function that takes a string and creates a palindrome from it. It should work like this:

output = create_palindrome('pear')

print(output) # it prints: pearraep

2nd Part:

Create a function that searches for all the palindromes in a string that are at least than 3 characters, and returns a list with the found palindromes. Example:

output = search_palindromes('dog goat dad duck doodle never')
print(output) # it prints: ['og go', ' dad ', 'd d', 'dood', 'eve']

Demo description

Creating simple algorithms as searching palindromes in a string, to practice variables, conditionals, loops and the other basic elements of a programming languages in python