When printing the rows of the array/canvas you might add \n to the end of
each row and print the canvas all at once rather than a print statement for
each row.
Vincent Davis
720-301-3003
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Vincent Davis <vinc...@vincentdavis.net>wrote:
> You might think about using an array to represent the canvas. Starting
> with it filled with "" and then for each point change it to "X".
> The print the rows of the array.
>
> You can make the array/canvas arbitrarily large and then plot multiple
> different paths onto the same array.
>
>
> Vincent Davis
> 720-301-3003
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Jason Friedman <jsf80...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am teaching Python to a class of six-graders as part of an after-school
>> enrichment. These are average students. We wrote a non-GUI "rocket
>> lander" program: you have a rocket some distance above the ground, a
>> limited amount of fuel and a limited burn rate, and the goal is to have the
>> rocket touch the ground below some threshold velocity.
>>
>> I thought it would be neat, after a game completes, to print a graph
>> showing the descent.
>>
>> Given these measurements:
>> measurement_dict = { # time, height
>> 0: 10,
>> 1: 9,
>> 2: 9,
>> 3: 8,
>> 4: 8,
>> 5: 7,
>> 6: 6,
>> 7: 4,
>> 8: 5,
>> 9: 3,
>> 10: 2,
>> 11: 1,
>> 12: 0,
>> }
>>
>> The easiest solution is to have the Y axis be time and the X axis
>> distance from the ground, and the code would be:
>>
>> for t, y in measurement_dict.items():
>> print("X" * y)
>>
>> That output is not especially intuitive, though. A better visual would
>> be an X axis of time and Y axis of distance:
>>
>> max_height = max(measurement_dict.values())
>> max_time = max(measurement_dict.keys())
>> for height in range(max_height, 0, -1):
>> row = list(" " * max_time)
>> for t, y in measurement_dict.items():
>> if y >= height:
>> row[t] = 'X'
>> print("".join(row))
>>
>> My concern is whether the average 11-year-old will be able to follow such
>> logic. Is there a better approach?
>>
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