Practice 1 feedback

Overall, I'm pleased with practice 1. The flake rate for the course was about what was expected, and the turnout for practice 1 was strong. I know many of you started early, and that allowed you to get the help you needed. It's a good habit, and I'm thinking of making myself available for an open help hour later in the week. I noticed I could have been clearer with my wording on practice 1, so feel free to ask for clarification and I will generously provide it.

Out of 4 points
  • 0: you didn't do it
  • 1: you struggled with these concepts and we should revisit them
  • 2: you're starting to get it, but we should touch base to catch up
  • 3: Good job: feel free to move on if you're ready
  • 4: Great job: this work is model-worthy

    A leaderboard will soon arise, but for now we have a tie for top score. (Also note, that scoring 'top' in the class is by no means fair - it heavily favors those with prior experience, but it's the best way to get those with prior experience to feel challenged and compete. If you're a new programmer, just go for 3's and when Coup comes around, just try to beat my agents)

    Val (4/4)

    The solutions were clean and utilize exactly the kind of logic covered in class. I pulled his copy and pushed it into the `solutions`.

    Jessup (4/4)

    Same comment as above.

    Great job with the extra practice problem! I'm not going to be too critical because you got the idea exactly right, but you didn't quite match the random number generation I had (notice in my file, I generated from 0 to 99).

    Also, I see you used an absolute path. I should've instructed the crew to copy abab.txt over so it could be easily readable with `my_f = open("abab.txt", "r")`, but you figured it out anyway!

    Lanz Firszt (4/4)

    A great example of what to do if you'd like to take your python to the next level. It demonstrates concepts we don't fully know yet,

    Kidder (?/4)

    Go to your github repostiory and github.com and delete the .DS_store file, then go to your github desktop and fetch. After you've done that, I should be able to pull your code. If not, we'll follow up.

    You were 3/4 last time I checked, but now I can't see the files! Email or text me when you figure it out.

    Anton (2/4)

    Almost there! We've already arranged to meet to get you caught up. I'm impressed by you've done so far.

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