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What are procedures?

Fill in the blanks please:

  • Procedure: A named group of programming instructions that may have parameters and return values

  • Parameters: The input values of a procedure

  • Arguments: Specify the values of the parameters when a procedure is called

  • Modularity: Separating a program's functions into independent pieces or blocks, each containing all the parts needed to execute a single aspect of the functionality

  • Procedural Abstraction: provides a name for a process that allows a procedure to be used only knowing WHAT it does, not HOW it does it

  • What are some other names for procedures?: A procedure is also known as a function, you can name the function whatever you want

  • Why are procedures effective?: We have the ability to alter the result without actually changing the calls to the program

Challenge 1 below: Add the command that will call the procedure. 

decimal = 7
binary = format(decimal, 'b') # procedure that converts to binary 

# Print the result
print(binary)

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Challenge 2 below: Complete the Min and Max procedure in either JavaScript and Python using the instructions from the JavaScript page. (JavaScript will get you a extra 0.1) 

// Start by creating a procedure called findMax and set the parameters to numberA and numberB.
function findMax(numberA, numberB){
// Within the procedure, write the code to determine which of the two parameters, numberA or numberB, is the larger value. Print that value.
if (numberA > numberB){
    console.log(numberA)
}
else{
    console.log(numberB)
}
}
findMax(20, 40)

// Repeat the process, this time creating a procedure called findMin, which will print the parameter with a smaller value.
function findMin(numberA, numberB){
    if (numberA < numberB){
        console.log(numberA)
    }
    else{
        console.log(numberB)
    }
    }
    findMin(20, 40)
// Call both functions so that the parameters numberA and numberB are given a value.
var numberA = 1;
var numberB = 2;
console.log(findMax(numberA, numberB));
console.log(findMin(numberA, numberB));
// Optional bonus- create a procedure that can determine the minimum or maximum value out of more than two parameters.

40
20
2
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1
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Homework/Hacks: For the hw, you have two options, easy or hard. The easy hack is for a 2.7 + extra work for the full 3. The easy hack is simply creating your own procedure with your own creativity. Since there is a lot of leeway for this one, you must do additional work to get a 3. For the hard hack, below is the start to a character to binary convertor. This is just a template, but the goal is to translate "APCSP" into binary. You can delete the existing code if you want. The only contraint is that you must use a procedure. Doing this will get you a 3. 

def charToBinary(x):()

# The output shown below is the output you are supposed to get

def charToBinary(x):
  # Get the ASCII code of the characters in the string
  ascii_code = ord(x)
  
  # Convert the ASCII code to binary (string of 0 and 1)
  binary = bin(ascii_code)
  
  # Remove the "0b" from the binary string
  binary = binary[2:]
  
  # 8 digits
  binary = binary.zfill(8)
  
  return binary

# Test the function
string = "APCSP"
for x in string:
  binary = charToBinary(x)
  print(str(x) + " : " + str(binary)) #formatting for the printed output

A : 01000001
P : 01010000
C : 01000011
S : 01010011
P : 01010000