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CEng 240 – Spring 2021

Week 5
Sinan Kalkan

Conditional and Repetitive Execution

Disclaimer: Figures without reference are from either from “Introduction to programming concepts
with case studies in Python” or “Programming with Python for Engineers”, which are both co-authored
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 This Week
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¢ Conditional Execution
§ if statement
§ Conditional expression

¢ Repetitive Execution
§ while/for statement
§ break/continue statements
§ Set/list comprehension

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 Administrative Notes
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¢ No quiz this week!

¢ Lab 2 and Lab 1 makeup
¢ Midterm: 1 June, Tuesday, 17:40

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CONDITIONAL EXECUTION

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 Conditional Statements in Python
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¢ the syntax is important!

¢ indentation is extremely important!
¢ “else”-part can be omitted!

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 Multiple If Statements
in Python
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 Example
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 Multiple Nested If Statements in
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 Example
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¢ Finding the maximum of two numbers

¢ Finding the maximum of three numbers

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 Conditional Expression in Python
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<exp-1> if <cond-exp> else <exp-2>

Note that this is an expression not a

statement!!

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REPETITIVE EXECUTION

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 while statement
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 for statement
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 Example
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¢ Count the occurrences of characters in a

string, e.g.
"aaaaaaxxxxmyyyaaaassssssssstttuivvvv”

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 Break statements
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 “break” example
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 Continue statements
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¢ <var> will
point to
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item in the
list.

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 Set and list comprehension
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¢ [x**3 for x in range(8)]

¢ {x**3 for x in range(8)}

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 Exercises from the book
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 Final Words:
Important Concepts
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¢ Variables; Aliasing problem; Naming Variables

¢ Actions for interacting with the environment
¢ Comments, pass statements
¢ Actions in packages (libraries)
¢ Writing your actions (interpreter vs.
script/modules)

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THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

STAY HEALTHY

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