Identifying and Correcting Errors (Unit 1.4)
Become familiar with types of errors and strategies to fixing them
- Lightly Review Videos and take notes on topics with Blog
- Complete assigned MCQ questions
Here are some code segments you can practice fixing:
#Create a list of the alphabet
alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
alphabetList = []
for i in alphabet:
alphabetList.append(i)
print(alphabetList)
The intended outcome is to determine where the letter is in the alphabet using a while loop
- What is a good test case to check the current outcome? Why?
- Make changes to get the intended outcome.
letter = input("What letter would you like to check?")
i = 0
while i < 26:
if alphabetList[i] == letter:
print("The letter " + letter + " is the " + str(i) + " letter in the alphabet")
i += 1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
KeyboardInterrupt Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 8
5 i = 0
7 while i < 26:
----> 8 if alphabetList[i] == letter:
9 print("The letter " + letter + " is the " + str(i) + " letter in the alphabet")
10 i += 1
Cell In[1], line 8
5 i = 0
7 while i < 26:
----> 8 if alphabetList[i] == letter:
9 print("The letter " + letter + " is the " + str(i) + " letter in the alphabet")
10 i += 1
File _pydevd_bundle/pydevd_cython.pyx:1457, in _pydevd_bundle.pydevd_cython.SafeCallWrapper.__call__()
File _pydevd_bundle/pydevd_cython.pyx:701, in _pydevd_bundle.pydevd_cython.PyDBFrame.trace_dispatch()
File _pydevd_bundle/pydevd_cython.pyx:1152, in _pydevd_bundle.pydevd_cython.PyDBFrame.trace_dispatch()
File _pydevd_bundle/pydevd_cython.pyx:1135, in _pydevd_bundle.pydevd_cython.PyDBFrame.trace_dispatch()
File _pydevd_bundle/pydevd_cython.pyx:312, in _pydevd_bundle.pydevd_cython.PyDBFrame.do_wait_suspend()
File ~/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/debugpy/_vendored/pydevd/pydevd.py:2070, in PyDB.do_wait_suspend(self, thread, frame, event, arg, exception_type)
2067 from_this_thread.append(frame_custom_thread_id)
2069 with self._threads_suspended_single_notification.notify_thread_suspended(thread_id, thread, stop_reason):
-> 2070 keep_suspended = self._do_wait_suspend(thread, frame, event, arg, suspend_type, from_this_thread, frames_tracker)
2072 frames_list = None
2074 if keep_suspended:
2075 # This means that we should pause again after a set next statement.
File ~/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/debugpy/_vendored/pydevd/pydevd.py:2106, in PyDB._do_wait_suspend(self, thread, frame, event, arg, suspend_type, from_this_thread, frames_tracker)
2103 self._call_input_hook()
2105 self.process_internal_commands()
-> 2106 time.sleep(0.01)
2108 self.cancel_async_evaluation(get_current_thread_id(thread), str(id(frame)))
2110 # process any stepping instructions
KeyboardInterrupt:
The intended outcome is to determine where the letter is in the alphabet using a for loop
- What is a good test case to check the current outcome? Why?
- Make changes to get the intended outcome.
letter = input("What letter would you like to check?")
for i in alphabetList:
count = 0
if i == letter:
print("The letter " + letter + " is the " + str(count) + " letter in the alphabet")
count += 1
This code outputs the even numbers from 0 - 10 using a while loop.
- Analyze this code to determine what can be changed to get the outcome to be odd numbers. (Code block below)
evens = []
i = 0
while i <= 10:
evens.append(i)
i += 2
print(evens)
This code should output the odd numbers from 0 - 10 using a while loop.
odds = []
i = 0
while i <= 10:
odds.append(i)
i += 2
print(odds)
This code outputs the even numbers from 0 - 10 using a for loop.
- Analyze this code to determine what can be changed to get the outcome to be odd numbers. (Code block below)
numbers = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
evens = []
for i in numbers:
if (numbers[i] % 2 == 0):
evens.append(numbers[i])
print(evens)
This code should output the odd numbers from 0 - 10 using a for loop.
numbers = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
odds = []
for i in numbers:
if (numbers[i] % 2 == 0):
odds.append(numbers[i])
print(odds)
The intended outcome is printing a number between 1 and 100 once, if it is a multiple of 2 or 5
- What values are outputted incorrectly. Why?
- Make changes to get the intended outcome.
numbers = []
newNumbers = []
i = 0
while i < 100:
numbers.append(i)
i += 1
for i in numbers:
if numbers[i] % 5 == 0:
newNumbers.append(numbers[i])
if numbers[i] % 2 == 0:
newNumbers.append(numbers[i])
print(newNumbers)
[0, 0, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 30, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 50, 50, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 60, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 70, 70, 72, 74, 75, 76, 78, 80, 80, 82, 84, 85, 86, 88, 90, 90, 92, 94, 95, 96, 98]
Challenge
This code segment is at a very early stage of implementation.
- What are some ways to (user) error proof this code?
- The code should be able to calculate the cost of the meal of the user
Hint:
- write a “single” test describing an expectation of the program of the program
- test - input burger, expect output of burger price
- run the test, which should fail because the program lacks that feature
- write “just enough” code, the simplest possible, to make the test pass
Then repeat this process until you get program working like you want it to work.
menu = {"burger": 3.99,
"fries": 1.99,
"drink": 0.99}
total = 0
#shows the user the menu and prompts them to select an item
print("Menu")
for k,v in menu.items():
print(k + " $" + str(v)) #why does v have "str" in front of it?
#ideally the code should prompt the user multiple times
item = input("Please select an item from the menu")
total = total + v
#code should add the price of the menu items selected by the user
print(total)
Menu
burger $3.99
fries $1.99
drink $0.99
0.99
Hacks
Now is a good time to think about Testing of your teams final project…
- What errors may arise in your project?
- What are some test cases that can be used?
- Make sure to document any bugs you encounter and how you solved the problem.
- What are “single” tests that you will perform on your project? Or, your part of the project?
- As Hack Design and Test plan action … Divide these “single” tests into Issues for Scrum Board prior to coding. FYI, related tests could be in same Issue by using markdown checkboxes to separate tests.