1. Announcements Course evaluation Your opinion matters! Attendance grades Will be posted prior to the final Project 5 grades Will be posted prior to the final One day extension for Project 5, now due Dec 8 th at 11:59pm

2. Final 35 Questions Multiple Choice Same format as midterms Do not be surprised to find questions similar to the most frequently missed questions on your two midterms

3. Final – unique questions 3 questions complexity 3 questions recursion 2 questions search 2 questions sorting

4. Final – some questions may combine multiple topics! 2 questions functions/returns 2 questions matrices 2 questions dictionaries 2 questions I/O files 2 questions string manipulation 2 questions trees 2 questions loops 2 questions conditionals 2 question binary

5. Other Stuff that will (or may) appear Auxiliary functions and operators: len, range, ord, chr, %, [ : ], not, or, and Useful string and list manipulation functions strip, split, rfind, find, append, etc. Python short hand elif, a,b = b,a, +=

6. Other Stuff that will (or may) appear Modules random True and False What values are consider to be True and what values are considered to be False

7. Do a self assessment 2 practice midterms 2 midterms Final Practice questions Read through solutions to project 1-4 Is there code you do not understand? Read through lab solutions Is there code you do not understand?

8. Key things to go over Recursion examples – recitation + lecture slides Know the complexity of your searching and sorting algorithms (memorize!) You do NOT need to memorize the code for the algorithms themselves You should know the intuition behind why they work Know the complexity classes (least complex to most complex) (memorize!)

9. Key things to go over Be able to identify the growth term (hint: think about the relation to complexity classes) Example code in prelabs! Review slides from both midterms Review slides for the final

10. Things you do NOT need to review Project 5 Solution It will be posted too close to the exam Chapter 9 and the recitation slides that go along with it Naming of loops: Sentinel, Interactive, File, Nested You just need to know what the loop is doing, not what it is called Lab 15 solution OS Module, urllib Module Graphics library

11. What should you know about bucket sort? Consider a special (simpler) case of bucket sort Assume we know something about the list of numbers we are sorting All numbers are integers We know the maximum number We know the minimum number

12. How should we sort such a list? Create one bucket for each integer including and between min and max Traverse the list we want to sort Place integer in corresponding bucket Note: we do not need to sort the buckets as each number in them is the same! What is the complexity of this? Afterwards combine all the buckets What is the complexity of this?

13. Complexity of Bucket Sort One final assumption: size of list that we want to sort > (max- min) How can we find the complexity? Traversing the list and placing an integer into a bucket is O(n) We do one “piece” of work for each item in the list Inserting into a list without worrying about order is O(1) Combining buckets is no more complex than O(n)

14. What does this code do? def myFun(myList): n = len(myList) i = 1 while ( i<n): myList[i] = i i = i*2 return myList

15. What does this code do? def myFun(myList): n = len(myList) i = 1 while ( i<n): myList[i] = i i = i*2 return myList >>> myFun([0]) [0] >>> myFun([0,0,0,0]) [0, 1, 2, 0] >>> myFun([0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]) [0, 1, 2, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 16, 0]

16. What is the complexity? A: O(n) B: O(n 2 ) C: O(1) D: O(log n) def myFun(myList): n = len(myList) i = 1 while ( i<n): myList[i] = i i = i*2 return myList NOTE: you will NOT need to be able to do a problem like this on the final

17. What does this code do? def trickyReturns(list): k = 0 for w in range(len(list)): if(list[w] == 1001): return w else: k=k+1 return k

18. What does this code do? def trickyReturns(list): k = 0 for w in range(len(list)): if(list[w] == 1001): return w else: k=k+1 return k >>> trickyReturns([0,1,3,4,5]) 1 >>> trickyReturns([1001,1,3,4,5]) 0 >>> trickyReturns([0,1,1001,3,4,5]) 1

19. What is the complexity? def trickyReturns(list): k = 0 for w in range(len(list)): if(list[w] == 1001): return w else: k=k+1 return k A: O(n) B: O(n 2 ) C: O(1) D: O(log n) NOTE: you will NOT need to be able to do a problem like this on the final

20. How to think about recursion First identify the terminating condition Then think about the problem in terms of a supply chain What is each entity in the supply chain doing? Try tracing on a small input

21. What does this code do? def mystery(x): if x == 1: return 1 else: return x * mystery(x-1)

22. What does this do? def mystery(x): return x + mystery(x-1)

23. How do we fix it? def mystery(x): if x == 0: return 0 else: return x + mystery(x-1)

24. Tracing the mystery function mystery(5) 5 + (mystery(4)) 5 + (4 + (mystery(3))) 5 + (4 + (3 + (mystery(2)))) …. Why are the parenthesis important?

25. What if we had this function? def mystery(x): if x == 0: return 0 else: return x - mystery(x-1)

26. Tracing the mystery function mystery(5) 5 - (mystery(4)) 5 - (4 - (mystery(3))) 5 - (4 - (3 - (mystery(2)))) …. >>> mystery(3) 2 >>> mystery(4) 2 >>> mystery(5) 3 >>>

27. Fun things to do with Python Build video games http://pygame.org/news.html http://rene.f0o.com/mywiki/PythonGameProgramming

28. Lego Mindstorms Program your robots with Python http://code.google.com/p/nxt-python/

29. Professional Python Use Bio Informatics http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596154516.do Numpy / Scipy http://numpy.scipy.org/

30. Final 35 Questions Multiple Choice Same format as midterms Do not be surprised to find questions similar to the most frequently missed questions on your two midterms

31. Book Chapters Chapters 4-8 Chapters 11 and 13

32. Identify the term that has the largest growth rate Num of steps growth term complexity 6n + 3 6n O(n) 2n 2 + 6n + 3 2n 2 O(n 2 ) 2n 3 + 6n + 3 2n 3 O(n 3 ) 2n 10 + 2 n + 3 2 n O(2 n ) n! + 2n 10 + 2 n + 3 n! O(n!)

33. Comparison of complexities: fastest to slowest O(1) – constant time O(log n) – logarithmic time O(n) – linear time O(n log n) – log linear time O(n 2 ) – quadratic time O(2 n ) – exponential time O(n!) – factorial time

34. Searching Linear Search Complexity O(n) Why: scan each element Binary Search Complexity O(log n) Why: break list into two pieces, discard one piece

35. Sorting Bubble sort Complexity O(n^2) Why: Inner loop compares every pair of elements in the list, there are n-1 pairs of elements Why: outer loop runs n times, the last time there will be no swaps Merge sort Complexity O(n log n) Why: there are log n “level” – ie it takes us log(n) splits to get to lists of length one Why: it takes us O(n) work to merge all lists on each level

36. Sorting Simplified bucket sort: Complexity O(n) Why: can each element and place it in a bucket, then glue all buckets together Assumptions: know the range of elements in the list, assume all elements are integers (finite distribution), distribution is dense (ie the number of elements in the list is equal to or greater than max-min) Observation: in the worst case we have one element per bucket, merging is still O(n)

37. What is the terminating condition? def mystery(x): if x == 1: return 1 else: return x * mystery(x-1) What if we call mystery with a negative number?

38. Now what is the terminating condition? def mystery(x): if x <=1: return 1 else: return x * mystery(x-1) What if we call mystery with a negative number?

39. What does this do? def t4(c): x = {} for i in range(128): x[chr(i)] = i return x[c]

40. What is the output of the following code? list = ['A',1,'B',2,'C',3,'D',4] myDict = {} for i in range(0,len(list),2): myDict[list[i]] = list[i+1 ]

41. What is the output of the following code? list = ['A',1,'B',2,'C',3,'D',4] myDict = {} for i in range(len(list)-1): myDict[list[i]] = list[i+1 ]

42. How can we characterize the difference between the two pieces of code? In the first example we looked at each non overlapping par in the list In the second example we looked at all pairs in the list (similar to what you did / are doing in project 5)

43. Conditionals def sel(mylist): for i in range(len(mylist)): if mylist[i] % 2: print(i)

44. Conditionals def t1(x,y,z): if x and y or z: x = y if x and not z: print("goal") else: x = z else: z = y

45. Homework Study for the final