SPOT is also now available on Marge for new, improved response times while in class!

Here is a machine-language version of a simple SPOT program.

• Period 2
• Period 5
• Period 6
• Period 7

1. an HTML link to your Query-page into the Comments-to-Teacher
2. 1-3 sentences on who did what on the project also into the Comments-to-Teacher
3. upload the Python program 

Presentation

Here is a sample presentation project that I cooked up for the SAT data...(and here's the Python program that handles it).

Here's the new/improved guide to CGI programming with forms.

Note: There's a quirk when working with the PythonWebServer at home: If the Python program you write reads a data file, then put your Python program into the cgi-bin directory (a subdirectory of the directory containing the PythonWebServer.py file), but put your data file into the directory containing the PythonWebServer.py.  Despite the fact that your program and the data files are in different directories, when your Python program is run by the web-server, it can still open the data file using the simple open(filename,'r') command, as if the data file were in the same directory. 

Mr. Holmes has provided, for us, Tiny Steps Toward Enlightenment -- a guide which will step you through the successful creation of such interactive webpages.

1) Download the SAT scores file below (if you haven't already) into your marge account.

2) Clean the file: removing any non-school data, removing schools that have no SAT scores, fixing the lines with schools that have commas in the middle of their names so that you can use their SAT data without problems.  If you're not succeeding at fixing the lines with the schools that have commas, then just remove those lines/schools from the datafile (serves them right to clutter their names with commas).  Write the cleaned version to a file.

3) Read the cleaned file and create a dictionary called dSchools with the school name as the key, and the total SAT score as the value.

4) Invert dSchools, creating a new dictionary called dSAT whose keys are the distinct total SAT scores, and whose value, for a particular key, is the list of schools with that SAT score.

5) Retrieve the list of distinct SAT scores from dSAT by asking for the list of its keys.  Sort this list.

6) Print the school(s) (guess!) with the highest SAT score, and the one(s) with the lowest, and the one(s) with the median score.  If there are an even number of distinct SAT scores, choose one of the two middle ones.  Remember: the point of inverting dSchools is that there may be several schools with the same SAT score, and so the values in dSAT must be lists of schools, even though most schools have SAT scores that are different from those of other schools.

Given the following list whose elements are little 2-element lists:
L=[['Harry','good'],['Ron','good'],['Draco','bad'],['Hermione','good'],['Voldy','bad']]

1) create a dictionary called dNames whose keys are the names and whose values are 'good' or 'bad', so that if I know the name of one of the characters, I can look up whether he/she is good or bad.

2) using dnames only (not using the original list), create a new dictionary called dGoodness  whose two keys are 'good' and 'bad', and the 'good' key has the value of the list of people who are good, and the 'bad' key has the value of the list of the bad folks.  So, I can use the dictionary to get a list of all the 'good' or 'bad' people.

This is an exercise in "inverting" a dictionary -- converting the keys into values and vice versa.  This is occasionally very useful.

Here are two (almost identical) simple Python programs that you can use to copy from and expand.  One is for Windows and the other for Mac/Unix.  Download (by right-clicking, and "Save As...") the appropriate one for your system, and change the suffix from ".txt" to ".py".  On a Mac or Unix system, you'll also have to change its file permissions to "executable", which you can do with the UNIX command chmod +x *.py, when you're in a Terminal window in the same directory as the file.

• new computer hardware or digital capabilities (e.g. a robot which can dance hip-hop)
• a software item (e.g. a program which can predict which songs will become popular), 
• an economics item (e.g. the effect of cheaper memory on people's lifestyles), 
• a political item (e.g. autonomous drones and the military)
• lots of other possibilities

It can be serious or humorous, but it must be true.  You will also put a one or two sentence summary onto your period's Digital Daily Google Doc, with a link to the source.
Here are some sources you can tap into, although many others are fine: Slashdot, ACM TechNews, CNET Tech News.

• Second page of the Python Crib Sheet
• The String area of an excellent Python reference web page (try to explore the whole page).

Some MacOS users have reported IDLE crashing often. (Seems to happen mostly with OSX version 10.6)

Then, on the homework server, in the Comments-to-Teacher, create an HTML anchor tag, like 
<a href="http://marge.stuy.edu/~pbrooks/homepage.html">Beware!</a>
and also tell me whether or not you want your homepage entered into the class competition.  Then submit that homework (MAKE SURE you submit it to the "homepage" homework slot!).  Then, go back to the View your Homework menu, and TEST your link.

If you are having problems viewing your homepage.html file after you've uploaded it to Marge, view this video...

• The Python official site can be found at http://www.python.org, and the download page is at: http://www.python.org/download/.  
• We want to use version 2.7.3, not 3.3.0. Why?  Ask me in class.
• Windows folks: you need to check whether you are using a 32-bit version or 64-bit version of Windows.  Try to find your Control Panel, and bring up the System page, which should tell you which version you're using.  Then choose the right Python download file.
• Mac folks: Try to figure out which version of OS X you're using, and choose the appropriate Python download version.

1. Build a web page according to the following design:
2. Create a web page that looks like this.  And no, you can't just put this picture into the center of your web page.  Nice try.
3. You may customize it a little, by using a different picture for the table, and any destination you please for the "Nirvana" link.  You may also change the text, and colors, but keep the general structure (look/placement of things) of the page.
4. Use a picture that is NOT your own file/picture -- in other words, use a picture that's out there on the internet.   Your image tag should refer to a picture on the internet.
5. Go to the homework server, when you Submit Homework, and upload your HTML file (you'll press the "Browse" button to find it on your hard drive), rather than the using the instructions I gave in class about creating an HTML "<a" anchor tag in the Comments-To-Teacher.

Mr. Holmes: Instructions here: http://www.davidmholmes.net/Bard/apprentice2/lessons/01_html/picturesWithoutMarge.html

• http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
• http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/html_cheatsheet/
• http://www.quackit.com/html/

1. Go to the main class link page (http://www.micromind.com/stuy)
2. Click on the Homework/Grade server link
3. Choose the Profile menu item
4. Choose your period and name
5. Log in with your 4-digit Stuy ID as your password
6. Fill out your email address, home phone #, and preferred first name only, DO NOT CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD YET.
7. Save: (Change Profile button)...
8. (optional, but recommended): now you can change your password for this Homework server, if you want.
9. REMEMBER this password!

1. AIS Tutoring is available for this course every Thurs (some some exceptions) after school (3:45) in room 325.
   
2. Help from Mr. Brooks: Feel free to come and see me during periods 3, 4, 8 or 9  in room 301 (no appointment is necessary, but a warning is welcome),
   or, by appointment beforehand: just after school in room 401.
   
3. If you need additional help, we can set you up with an Arista tutor.  Please see me.  However, this is unlikely to be successful right before tests, so let's arrange this further in advance.