Programming assignments

1. Scoring a game of bliv: The computer does the paperwork for the national pastime of the Republic of Blivetia.
2. Roommate selection at Wossamotta U.: The computer finds a suitable roommate for Bullwinkle.
3. Determining the day of the week: The computer navigates the intricacies of the Gregorian calendar.
4. Constructing Lingala prose numerals: The computer counts in a foreign language.
5. Statistical testing: The computer investigates an accusation of fraud in the granola industry.
6. Analysis of the Iowa census: The computer answers some easy questions in demographics.
7. Preparing a word index: The computer deconstructs text files.
8. Fantasy hoops: The computer selects a dream team.
9. Drawing the American flag: The computer constructs and displays the star-spangled banner on screen.

I haven't yet contrived the rest of the programming assignments, but they'll be added to the list above when I have them ready.

Meanwhile, if you're curious, you can look over some programming assignments that I've given in past offerings of this course:

• Apparatus criticus
• Assigning incoming students to tutorial sections
• Automobile weight and fuel consumption
• Closest contemporaries
• Counting in Aleut
• Declining Latin nouns
• Determining the day of the week
• Fetal oxygen consumption rate
• Finding a string in a file
• Identifying contemporaries
• Iowa cities and towns
• Kepler's third law of planetary motion
• Naming the baby
• Nematode DNA
• Plotting data
• Population density
• Purchasing power of American production workers
• Simulating a gambling game
• The structure of arithmetic expressions
• Summarizing poll results
• Tallying votes
• Translating formatted data
• Voting power

This document is available on the World Wide Web as

http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~stone/courses/scheme/programming-assignments.xhtml

created July 10, 2001
last revised December 5, 2001

John David Stone (stone@cs.grinnell.edu)