Homework 1
Due: 10 11:00am, Fri Jan 21, 201159pm, Tuesday, Sep 08, 2020
100 points
For all Racket assignments in this assignmentcourse, set the DrScheme DrRacket Language to Beginning Advanced Student with List Abbreviations
(under How to Design Programs
). Your assignment will be graded using the specified language level. If you use a different language level, your code may not work when it is graded.
- Carefully follow the Sample Solution to a Programming Problem in the Scheme HW Racket HW Guide. Less than half of the credit for each programming problem is based on the the correctness of your code as determined by our test cases. Most of the grade is based on how well you follow the design recipe.
- Do the following programming problems from the book (HTDP)::
- [10 pts] Develop the function
contains?
, which consumes a symbol and a list of symbols and determines whether or not the symbol occurs in the list. - [10 pts] Develop the function
how-many-symbols
, which consumes a list of symbols and produces the number of items in the list. - [10 pts] Develop the function
how-many-numbers
, which counts how many numbers are in a list of numbers. - [20 pts] Define the function
average-price
. It consumes a list of toy prices and computes the average price of a toy. The average is the total of all prices divided by the number of toys. toy prices are numbers. [Hint: develop several auxilliary functions (following the design recipe to develop each auxiliary function) that you can use to make the definition ofaverage-price
very easy. - [10pts] Develop the function
eliminate-exp
to eliminate expensive toys. The function consumes a number, called mp (short for "maximum price) and a list of toy prices, calledlotp
, and produces a list of all those prices inlotp
that are below or equal tomp
. For example,
(check-expect (eliminate-exp 1.0 (list 2.95 .95 1.0 5) (list .95 1.0)) = #true
- 8.3.1 (15 pts)
- 8.3.2 (15 pts)
- 9.3.3 (14 pts)
- 9.5.2 (14 pts)
- 9.5.7 (14 pts) [Note: toy prices are numbers. See 9.5.6.]
- 10.1.5 (14 pts)
- 10.1.7 (14 pts)
- [10 pts] Develop the function
- Notes:
- Be sure to do all the assigned parts of each problem. In the book, each problem ends with a block icon. Online, each problem ends with a hand icon.
- In problem 9.5.7, the book asks you to write a function that checks for the empty list input as an error and throws an aborting error in the case. (The purpose statement should document this behavior!) In the newest version of DrScheme, the
error
function take a single argument not two arguments as documented in the book. We recommend using a string (text enclosed in double quotation marks like"This is sample string"
. You can test the error throwing behavior of a function usingcheck-error
which is documented in the DrScheme Help Desk. - Read chapter 8 very carefully before doing the problems from that chapter. This chapter is not padded with lots of wordy examples. In writing hand evaluations for problems 8.3.1 and 8.3.2, follow the same format as the evaluation examples given in the Scheme HW Guide.
- To follow the design recipe, you must write down the purpose, contract, at least 5 well-chosen examples, write the code for the function, and include illustrative test cases for the function (using at least the examples you developed ahead of time). You can bundle the examples and test cases together as a block of
check-expect
invocations. Your chosen examples should illustrate the output you expect, and the test cases should produce the actual output (they should not be commented). If the function processes an inductive type, make sure that your examples include the base case(s) and sample inductive cases.
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