HW3 - Lists Assignment

due on Monday, 10/3 before 11:59 PM

Sue Evans & James MacGlashan

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Introduction

Getting Started

Use emacs to create a hw3.py file in your hw3 directory.
This file should have a complete file header comment and should follow all of the other
201 Python coding standards.

Objectives

This assignment is meant to give you practice using:

lists
conditionals
the 201 coding standards

UMBC Computer Science Major Progress

The purpose of this assignment is to tell the user what CMSC course requirements they must meet to complete the Computer Science major at UMBC.
Your program should only report CMSC requirements, not UMBC general course requirements.
You can find the UMBC Computer Science Major Requirements at http://www.umbc.edu/catalog/display.php?major=18
You only need to print requirements from Parts A to C for this assignment. You can ignore the additional requirements in Parts D - G.

Part A is the list of CMSC Core Requirements:
- CMSC 201 Computer Science I
- CMSC 202 Computer Science II
- CMSC 203 Discrete Structures
- CMSC 304 Ethical and Social Issues in Information Technology
- CMSC 313 Computer Organization & Assembly Language Programming
- CMSC 331 Principles of Programming Languages
- CMSC 341 Data Structures
- CMSC 345 Software Design and Development
- CMSC 411 Computer Architecture
- CMSC 421 Principles of Operating Systems
- CMSC 441 Algorithms
Part B is the list of required MATH courses:
- MATH 151 Calculus and Analytic Geometry I
- MATH 152 Calculus and Analytic Geometry II
- MATH 221 Linear Algebra
Part C is the STAT requirement.
- STAT 355 Introduction to Probability and Statistics for
  Scientists and Engineers
  (STAT 451 may be substituted for STAT 355.)
You can also ignore any GPA requirements for the courses.

Program Input

This assignment requires much more user input than prior assignments.

You should prompt the user for each CMSC course they have taken.
- Hint: If you ask the user how many classes they have taken, you'll know how many times to prompt the user.
The user will enter classes in the form:
```
<MAJOR-CODE> <COURSE-NUMBER>
```
For example, a user who has completed 201 would enter:
```
CMSC 201
```
For this assignment, you can assume the input will be formatted properly. Don't worry about about checking the input for errors.

Program Output: Parts A - C

After reading all of the input from the user, you need to output the requirements the user still needs to complete for the degree for each of the parts A - C.

You should print a header before each part like:
```
Part <X> Requirements
```
If the user has completed all of the requirements for that part, your program should indicate that instead, with:
```
You have satisified the Part <X> Requirements
```
For Parts A and B, a student has no choice in class selection, they must take all of the listed classes. Therefore, your program should print out each class that the user has not taken. A senior might get the following output:
- For Part A:
```
Part A Requirements:
     You need to take CMSC 421
     You need to take CMSC 441
```
- For Part B:
```
Part B Requirements:
     You need to take MATH 221
```
For Part C, a student must take STAT 355 or STAT 451, so if the user hasn't taken one of those courses you should indicate that:
```
Part C Requirements:
     You need to take STAT 355 or STAT 451
```

Example Output

linuxserver1.cs.umbc.edu[101] python hw3.py

Your greeting goes here

How many courses in the CS program have you taken? 4

Enter classes in the form <MAJOR-CODE> <COURSE-NUMBER>
Class: CMSC 201
Class: MATH 151
Class: PHYS 121
Class: CMSC 202

Part A Requirements:
You need to take CMSC 203
You need to take CMSC 304
You need to take CMSC 313
You need to take CMSC 331
You need to take CMSC 341
You need to take CMSC 345
You need to take CMSC 411
You need to take CMSC 421
You need to take CMSC 441

Part B Requirements:
You need to take MATH 152
You need to take MATH 221

Part C Requirements:
You need to take STAT 355 or STAT 451

Project Requirement Details

You must use lists of classes.
There should be lists of classes that are required for sections A & B.
Since the CMSC requirements list is quite long, simple assignment would cause wrapping in an 80-character wide window. Therefore, you should make use of list.extend() and/or list.append() to create this list in its entirety.
You'll also need a list of classes that the user has taken.
Keep in mind that students may have taken classes that are not part of the requirements, i.e. CMSC 104 or MATH 150. The user is allowed to enter these courses as courses they've taken. Your program should accept them and place them into the user's list.

Extra Credit

You can earn 5 points of extra credit on this assignment by having your program properly handle the
Part D - Science Requirements.

Part D - Required Science Courses
Computer science majors must take 12 credits in science courses.
Two courses must be from one of the following sequences.
- BIOL 100 - Concepts of Biology
  AND
  BIOL 301 - Ecology and Evolution
- CHEM 101 - Principles of Chemistry I
  AND
  CHEM 102 - Principles of Chemistry II
- PHYS 121 - Introductory Physics I
  AND
  PHYS 122 - Introductory Physics II
The remaining credits must be from science courses from the following list:
BIOL 100    BIOL 100L
BIOL 251    BIOL 251L
BIOL 252    BIOL 252L
BIOL 275    BIOL 275L
BIOL 301
BIOL 302    BIO 302L
BIOL 303    BIOL 303L
BIOL 304    BIOL 304L
BIOL 305    BIOL 305L
CHEM 101
CHEM 102    CHEM 102L
GES 110    GES 111
GES 120    PHYS 121
PHYS 122    PHYS 122L
PHYS 340L

Extra Credit - Program Output: Part D

For Part D, a student has a choice of classes to take, thus, your program output is going to be more complex. There are two halves to Part D:

Two specific courses of either BIOL, CHEM, or PHYS concentrations
More courses from a list of courses so that the student has a total of 12 or more science credits

For the first half you should list all the possible remaining combinations of the six courses. So if a student has already taken BIOL 100, your program should output:

Part D Requirements:
You need to take BIOL 301
OR
You need to take CHEM 101 AND CHEM 102
OR
You need to take PHYS 121 and PHYS 122

For the second half, if the user has not completed 12 science credits, you should print the number of science credits the user has already earned and then print out the list of classes the user can choose from, whether they have previously taken any of those courses or not.

You currently have 4 science credits.
You need to have 12 total science credits taken from the following list:
BIOL 100 BIOL 100L
BIOL 251 BIOL 251L
BIOL 252 BIOL 252L
BIOL 275 BIOL 275L
BIOL 301
BIOL 302 BIOL 302L
BIOL 303 BIOL 303L
BIOL 304 BIOL 304L
BIOL 305 BIOL 305L
CHEM 101
CHEM 102 CHEM 102L
GES 110  GES 111
GES 120  PHYS 121
PHYS 122 PHYS 122L
PHYS 340L

Example Output including Extra Credit

linuxserver1.cs.umbc.edu[101] python hw3.py

Your greeting goes here

How many courses in the CS program have you taken? 4

Enter classes in the form <MAJOR-CODE> <COURSE-NUMBER>
Class: CMSC 201
Class: MATH 151
Class: PHYS 121
Class: CMSC 202

Part A Requirements:
You need to take CMSC 203
You need to take CMSC 304
You need to take CMSC 313
You need to take CMSC 331
You need to take CMSC 341
You need to take CMSC 345
You need to take CMSC 411
You need to take CMSC 421
You need to take CMSC 441

Part B Requirements:
You need to take MATH 152
You need to take MATH 221

Part C Requirements:
You need to take STAT 355 or STAT 451

Part D Requirements:
You need to take BIOL 100 AND BIOL 301
OR
You need to take CHEM 101 AND CHEM 102
OR
You need to take PHYS 122


You currently have 4 science credits.
You need to have 12 total science credits
taken from the following list:
BIOL 100 BIOL 100L
BIOL 251 BIOL 251L
BIOL 252 BIOL 252L
BIOL 275 BIOL 275L
BIOL 301
BIOL 302 BIOL 302L
BIOL 303 BIOL 303L
BIOL 304 BIOL 304L
BIOL 305 BIOL 305L
CHEM 101
CHEM 102 CHEM 102L
GES 110  GES 111
GES 120  PHYS 121
PHYS 122 PHYS 122L
PHYS 340L

Submitting your work

When you've finished your homework, use the submit command to submit the file.

You must be logged into your account.
You must be in the same directory as the file you're trying to submit.
At the Linux prompt, type
submit cs201 hw3 hw3.py

Don't forget to watch for the confirmation that submit worked correctly. Specifically, the confirmation will say:

Submitting hw3.py...OK

If not, try again.

You can check your submission by entering
submitls cs201 hw3
You should see the name of the file that you just submitted, in this case, hw3.py.