A set of programming problems aimed at learning core Python skills including input and output from the command line, handling exceptions, dates and times using the datetime module, writing functions and control flow in Python, string methods, reading and writing files and basic plotting using Matplotlib.

This project / assignment consisted of a number of problems to be solved using Python. It was my first time using Python and the very first module with Python in the Higher Diploma in Computing and Data Analytics course.

The main resources I used in preparing my solutions to the assignment were as follows:

• The Python Docs / Tutorial
• The Python Docs / Standard Library
• The Coder’s Apprentice: Learning Programming with Python by Pieter Spronck which is available online.
• The Matplotlib docs / Tutorial

The project repository is available at GitHub.

An overview of my Python scripts for each of the problems is available on this website here.

• Problem 1: Write a program that asks the user to input any positive integer and outputs the sum of all numbers between one and that number.

• Problem 2: Write a program that outputs whether or not today is a day that begins with the letter T.

• Problem 3: Write a program that prints all numbers between 1,000 and 10,000 that are divisible by 6 but not 12

• Problem 4: Write a program that asks the user to input any positive integer and outputs the successive values of the following calculation. At each step calculate the next value by taking the current value and, if it is even, divide it by two, but if it is odd, multiply it by three and add one. Have the program end if the current value is one.

• Problem 5: Write a program that asks the user to input a positive integer and tells the user whether or not the number is a prime.

• Problem 6: Write a program that takes a user input string and outputs every second word.

• Problem 7: Write a program that that takes a positive floating point number as input and outputs an approximation of its square root.

• Problem 8: Write a program that outputs today’s date and time in the format “Monday, January 10th 2019 at 1:15pm”

• Problem 9: Write a program that reads in a text file and outputs every second line. The program should take the filename from an argument on the command line.

• Problem 10: Write a program that displays a plot of the functions $x$, $x^2$ and $2^x$ in the range[0,4].