Description
This lab assignment will give you practice with while-loops and Boolean operators.
Getting Started
Visit Piazza and download the “bare bones” file lab4.py onto your computer. Open lab4.py in PyCharm and
fill in the following information at the top:
1. your first and last name as they appear in Blackboard
2. your Net ID (e.g., jsmith)
3. your Stony Brook ID # (e.g., 111999999)
4. the course number (CSE 101)
5. the assignment name and number (Lab #4)
Submit your final lab4.py file to Blackboard by the due date and time. Late work will not be graded. Code that
crashes and cannot be graded will earn no credit.
Part I: Make it a Meal (20 points)
Fast food restaurants often offer customers the option of ordering a set of items that constitute a meal. For
instance, if a person buys a hamburger, fries and a soft drink at the same time, the restaurant might offer the items
at a discount.
Imagine a strange fast food restaurant that offers these items for sale: dumplings, hamburgers, ramen, salads, cups
of soda and bottles of water.
These items are represented using the following strings:
• dumplings: ’dumpling’
• hamburgers: ’hamburger’
• ramen: ’ramen’
• salads: ’salad’
• cups of soda: ’soda’
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• bottles of water: ’water’
Discounts are offered to patrons who order one or more of these combinations:
• Asian Fusion: a dumpling and ramen
• The Heart Attack: a hamburger and a soda
• The Unhappy Meal: a salad and a bottle of water
Write the function find combos(orders), which takes a list of strings called orders as its argument.
The strings are chosen from the set of six strings given above and represent a collection of items that a patron wants to purchase at the restaurant. (You may assume that only valid strings appear inside orders.)
The function counts the number of meal combinations it can make from the list of strings given. For instance, if the orders list were [’water’, ’soda’, ’water’, ’soda’, ’salad’, ’ramen’,
’water’, ’dumpling’, ’salad’, ’dumpling’], the function would detect one Asian Fusion meal,
zero Heart Attack meals, and two Unhappy Meals. The function would return the list [1, 0, 2] as a result.
Note that the counts are returned in this order inside the returned list:
[# of Asian Fusions, # of Heart Attacks, # of Unhappy Meals]
For this part of the assignment you do not need to use while-loops. Simply use a for-loop to traverse over the list
of strings. However, you probably will want to use Boolean operators to help you detect the meal combinations.
Examples:
find combos([’dumpling’, ’water’, ’dumpling’, ’dumpling’,
’ramen’, ’ramen’, ’water’])
[2, 0, 0]
find combos([’soda’, ’dumpling’, ’hamburger’, ’hamburger’,
’hamburger’, ’water’, ’dumpling’, ’ramen’])
[1, 1, 0]
find combos([’salad’, ’soda’, ’dumpling’, ’hamburger’, ’water’,
’water’, ’soda’, ’ramen’, ’salad’])
[1, 1, 2]
find combos([’water’, ’water’, ’soda’, ’soda’, ’salad’,
’dumpling’, ’soda’, ’dumpling’])
[0, 0, 1]
find combos([’water’, ’soda’, ’water’, ’salad’, ’soda’,
’hamburger’, ’soda’, ’hamburger’, ’soda’, ’salad’, ’soda’])
[0, 2, 2]
find combos([’hamburger’, ’water’, ’ramen’, ’salad’, ’water’,
’soda’, ’soda’, ’soda’, ’ramen’, ’salad’, ’ramen’, ’ramen’,
’dumpling’, ’ramen’, ’hamburger’])
[1, 2, 2]
find combos([’water’, ’soda’, ’hamburger’, ’soda’, ’dumpling’,
’ramen’, ’dumpling’, ’hamburger’, ’soda’, ’soda’, ’salad’,
’soda’, ’salad’, ’salad’, ’dumpling’])
[1, 2, 1]
find combos([’water’, ’ramen’, ’dumpling’, ’ramen’, ’salad’,
’dumpling’, ’ramen’, ’soda’, ’ramen’, ’dumpling’])
[3, 0, 1]
find combos([’salad’, ’ramen’, ’salad’, ’ramen’, ’soda’,
’water’, ’salad’, ’ramen’])
[0, 0, 1]
find combos([’ramen’, ’water’, ’ramen’, ’soda’, ’ramen’,
’hamburger’, ’soda’, ’ramen’, ’dumpling’, ’hamburger’])
[1, 2, 0]
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Part II: Blackjack Dice (20 points)
For this part you will implement a two-player version of the card game Blackjack but with six-sided dice instead
of playing cards. The function blackjack dice() will simulate the game with no interaction from the user.
The game rules are as follows:
• Players take turns “rolling” two six-sided dice, each accumulating a running total. We will see later how
the rolling of dice will be simulated.
• If a player’s total is less than 16, the player must roll the dice and add the total to his score.
• If a player’s total is greater than or equal to 16, the player does not roll the dice.
• If a player’s total equals exactly 21, the game ends immediately with a win for that player.
• If a player’s total becomes greater than 21 (“busting”), the game ends immediately with a win for the other
player.
• Thus, players continue rolling dice and accumulating totals while all of the following conditions are true:
◦ Neither player has reached 21 exactly.
◦ Neither player has busted (exceeded a total of 21).
◦ At least one player still has a score of less than 16.
If the game ends with neither player hitting 21 or busting, then the player whose score is closest to 21 wins the
game. In the event of a tie, the function returns the list [0, 0].
The function takes a single argument, dice, which is a list of 30 or so integers in the range 1 through 6, inclusive.
Rolling of dice is simulated by the function by reading integers from this list two at a time. One way to keep track
of which numbers the function should read next is to maintain an index variable (e.g., next die) that is updated
as values are read out. This variable would be initialized to zero at the top of the function. As an example:
die1 = dice[next_die]
die2 = dice[next_die+1]
next_die += 2
# update a player’s score using die1+die2
Once a game-ending condition has been reached, the function returns a list that contains two values: first, the
number of the player who won (1 or 2) and second, the score of the winning player.
A few runs of the game are given below with print statements that illustrate how the games proceed. Your solution
should not contain print statements. However, while working on your solution you may find it helpful to include
such print statements.
Sample Game Run #1: Player 1 wins by earning a score closer to 21 than Player 2
Dice: [5, 1, 6, 1, 1, 3, 3, 6, 5, 5, 1, 2, 2, 2, 6, 1, 3, 2, 6, 2, 3, 6, 4,
2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 3, 6]
Player 1’s score: 0
Player 1 rolled: 5 1
Player 1’s new score: 6
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Player 2’s score: 0
Player 2 rolled: 6 1
Player 2’s new score: 7
Player 1’s score: 6
Player 1 rolled: 1 3
Player 1’s new score: 10
Player 2’s score: 7
Player 2 rolled: 3 6
Player 2’s new score: 16
Player 1’s score: 10
Player 1 rolled: 5 5
Player 1’s new score: 20
(Note: Player 2 does not roll again because his score is >= 16.)
Return value: [1, 20]
Sample Game Run #2: Player 1 wins by earning a score of exactly 21
Dice: [4, 1, 1, 4, 4, 3, 2, 5, 6, 3, 2, 3, 3, 1, 3, 3, 5, 3, 3, 1, 6, 5, 1,
4, 6, 2, 2, 4, 4, 3]
Player 1’s score: 0
Player 1 rolled: 4 1
Player 1’s new score: 5
Player 2’s score: 0
Player 2 rolled: 1 4
Player 2’s new score: 5
Player 1’s score: 5
Player 1 rolled: 4 3
Player 1’s new score: 12
Player 2’s score: 5
Player 2 rolled: 2 5
Player 2’s new score: 12
Player 1’s score: 12
Player 1 rolled: 6 3
Player 1’s new score: 21
(Note: the game ends immediately. Player 2 does not get to roll again.)
Return value: [1, 21]
Sample Game Run #3: Player 2 wins because Player 1 busts
Dice: [1, 1, 3, 1, 5, 1, 6, 4, 1, 6, 5, 1, 2, 6, 4, 2, 6, 5, 4, 6, 1, 5, 3,
4, 1, 3, 6, 3, 2, 3]
Player 1’s score: 0
Player 1 rolled: 1 1
Player 1’s new score: 2
Player 2’s score: 0
Player 2 rolled: 3 1
Player 2’s new score: 4
Player 1’s score: 2
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Player 1 rolled: 5 1
Player 1’s new score: 8
Player 2’s score: 4
Player 2 rolled: 6 4
Player 2’s new score: 14
Player 1’s score: 8
Player 1 rolled: 1 6
Player 1’s new score: 15
Player 2’s score: 14
Player 2 rolled: 5 1
Player 2’s new score: 20
Player 1’s score: 15
Player 1 rolled: 2 6
Player 1’s new score: 23
(Note: the game ends immediately because Player 1 busted.)
Return value: [2, 20]
Some Hints:
Here is a general outline of how you might want to structure the main part of your function:
while at least one player needs to roll the dice again
if Player 1’s score is less than 16 then
roll the dice
add the sum of the dice to Player 1’s score
check for a win by Player 1 (return if Player 1 has won)
check for a loss by Player 1 (return if Player 1 has lost)
if Player 2’s score is less than 16 then
…similar to the steps for Player 1…
After the while-loop:
compare the scores for the two players to determine the winner
(and return the result)
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Examples:
blackjack dice([5, 1, 6, 1, 1, 3, 3, 6, 5, 5, 1, 2, 2, 2, 6, 1,
3, 2, 6, 2, 3, 6, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 3, 6])
[1, 20]
blackjack dice([3, 4, 2, 6, 4, 5, 6, 5, 6, 4, 5, 2, 5, 2, 5, 4,
5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 1, 6, 4, 2])
[2, 19]
blackjack dice([3, 3, 2, 6, 5, 2, 5, 1, 3, 1, 2, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4,
4, 1, 6, 6, 3, 1, 3, 4, 1, 3, 5, 3, 1, 5])
[2, 21]
blackjack dice([4, 3, 4, 3, 5, 6, 4, 3, 3, 2, 1, 4, 4, 3, 2, 6,
4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 5, 1, 1, 1, 2, 5, 6, 1])
[2, 19]
blackjack dice([4, 3, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 5, 4, 6, 3, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1,
6, 5, 2, 6, 6, 5, 5, 1, 5, 3, 5, 3, 4, 4])
[1, 19]
blackjack dice([4, 1, 1, 4, 4, 3, 2, 5, 6, 3, 2, 3, 3, 1, 3, 3,
5, 3, 3, 1, 6, 5, 1, 4, 6, 2, 2, 4, 4, 3])
[1, 21]
blackjack dice([4, 4, 6, 3, 4, 6, 1, 3, 3, 3, 1, 3, 1, 6, 1, 5,
5, 5, 6, 4, 4, 3, 5, 2, 2, 4, 3, 5, 2, 3])
[2, 19]
blackjack dice([5, 4, 2, 6, 3, 1, 1, 3, 5, 5, 3, 6, 2, 5, 2, 2,
2, 4, 4, 1, 4, 4, 5, 3, 1, 5, 5, 4, 5, 5])
[2, 12]
blackjack dice([1, 2, 4, 2, 2, 4, 6, 3, 4, 6, 2, 2, 5, 4, 3, 3,
2, 1, 1, 3, 6, 3, 4, 6, 3, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2])
[0, 0]
blackjack dice([3, 5, 1, 2, 6, 4, 4, 5, 1, 6, 4, 6, 2, 5, 5, 2,
6, 4, 3, 1, 6, 5, 1, 5, 6, 3, 6, 1, 4, 5])
[2, 19]
blackjack dice([5, 3, 5, 2, 5, 5, 4, 2, 6, 6, 3, 2, 4, 4, 3, 6,
5, 5, 2, 2, 1, 1, 4, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 4, 2])
[1, 18]
blackjack dice([1, 1, 3, 1, 5, 1, 6, 4, 1, 6, 5, 1, 2, 6, 4, 2,
6, 5, 4, 6, 1, 5, 3, 4, 1, 3, 6, 3, 2, 3])
[2, 20]
blackjack dice([4, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 6, 2, 5, 4, 3, 5, 5, 1,
5, 4, 1, 4, 2, 4, 5, 1, 4, 4, 5, 6, 2, 1])
[1, 21]
blackjack dice([3, 5, 4, 2, 3, 3, 5, 3, 4, 1, 5, 3, 5, 6, 2, 3,
3, 4, 5, 4, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 4, 1, 6, 2, 6])
[1, 19]
blackjack dice([2, 5, 6, 4, 2, 1, 6, 5, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6, 4, 5, 1,
3, 3, 4, 3, 5, 3, 1, 4, 6, 4, 2, 1, 6, 2])
[2, 21]
blackjack dice([1, 2, 6, 1, 2, 6, 5, 4, 6, 6, 6, 3, 5, 2, 1, 1,
3, 6, 4, 4, 4, 3, 5, 4, 3, 4, 4, 2, 1, 1])
[2, 16]
blackjack dice([4, 5, 6, 5, 1, 2, 3, 2, 4, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 6,
2, 2, 3, 5, 5, 6, 3, 1, 4, 6, 2, 3, 2, 3])
[1, 17]
blackjack dice([5, 1, 1, 4, 4, 1, 2, 5, 5, 1, 4, 4, 1, 3, 2, 1,
4, 4, 1, 5, 2, 3, 6, 5, 6, 3, 3, 6, 5, 2])
[2, 20]
blackjack dice([1, 5, 2, 3, 4, 6, 4, 6, 6, 6, 2, 5, 2, 5, 2, 6,
1, 1, 4, 5, 3, 1, 6, 4, 1, 1, 4, 5, 1, 2])
[1, 16]
blackjack dice([3, 3, 1, 5, 2, 6, 3, 5, 1, 3, 2, 2, 6, 2, 4, 4,
5, 1, 2, 6, 4, 2, 3, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2])
[0, 0]
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How to Submit Your Work for Grading
To submit your .py file for grading:
1. Login to Blackboard and locate the course account for CSE 101.
2. Click on “Assignments” in the left-hand menu and find the link for this assignment.
3. Click on the link for this assignment.
4. Click the “Browse My Computer” button and locate the .py file you wish to submit. Submit only that one
.py file.
5. Click the “Submit” button to submit your work for grading.
Oops, I messed up and I need to resubmit a file!
No worries! Just follow the above directions again. We will grade only your last submission.
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