day1

JumpStart Live (JSL)

Day 1

Prep work

• Review your Madlibs solution and be prepared to talk with others about your code.
• Watch Day 1 Videos (~45 minutes).
• Review lesson notes for Day 1.
• Complete the exercises and be prepared to discuss them with others in class.

Goals

• Have a big picture idea of your own work flow and how to improve it
• Understand and be able to use Ruby style practices

Warm up

• Walk your partner though your MadLibs code focusing on using programming vocabulary (e.g, variables, assignment, strings, input, output, string interpolation, string concatenation)

Lessons

• Workflow
• Ruby style
• Ruby types
• Keyboard input
• Strings

Exercises

1. Discuss bad style Madlibs example

2. How would you modify the code below to improve the code style and readability?

   foods = ["shrimp", "cauliflower", "salmon", "garlic", "oysters",
   "salami", "tomatoes", "okra", "zucchini", "avocado"]
   print "\nHow many foods would you like to see? I suggest 10, but it's up to you. "
   items=gets.chomp.to_i
   if items >10
   puts "Best I can do is 10. Let's do 10."
   items=10
   elsif items >=1 && items<= 10
   puts "Ok! Let's do " + items.to_s + "."
   else
   puts "We'll just pretend you said 10."
   items = 10
   end
   puts "...Your Fancy Random Menu..."
   items.times do |i|
   y = foods[rand(0...(foods.length))]
   puts i.to_s+": "+y
   end

3. Revisit your MadLibs code, and update your code to improve its style

4. Bio Program

   • Create a program that accepts input from the user and outputs a bio with that information
   • Use up to five different attributes about the person to populate the bio
   • Output should consist of a paragraph of output created from the users input

   Use Case

   Input

   Name: Viola Davis
   Birthday: August 11th, 1980
   Occupation: Actress
   

   Output

   Viola Davis is an actress who is 50 years old.
   Her birthday is on August 11th.
   She is a(n) actress.
   

   Optional Challenge

   Use the attributes provided to do some calculations to make your bio a bit more interesting.

   Output

   Viola Davis is an actress who is 50 years old.
   Her birthday is 34 days from today, on August 11th.
   She is a(n) actress.
   

Debrief

• What new things did you learn today?
• What topics are you still struggling with?
• What did you especially enjoy about today's class?
• What can be improved for future classes?

Resources

• Day 1 Videos
• Good style madlibs

Homework

• Revise your code for exercises for the day based on discussions in class. Share the gist with the instructor(s).
• Review your Candy Machine solution and be prepared to talk with others about your code.
• Review the Conditional and operators notes from JumpStart.
• Watch Day 2 Videos (~45 minutes).
• Review lesson notes for Day 2.
• Complete the Day 2 exercises and be prepared to discuss them with others in class.