This repository consists of 5 different Python projects submitted for Scientific Computing with Python certification. The Scientific Computing with Python curriculum includes hands-on skills training to analyze and manipulate data using Python. The course introduces key concepts such as data structures, algorithm, Object Oriented Programming, and tools for complex calculation.
Each project is submitted as an individual file, mainly consisting function and class definitions outside the main script for testing.
- Build an Arithmatic Formatter Project
- Build a Time Calculator Project
- Build a Budget App Project
- Build a Polygon Area Calculator Project
- Build a Probability Calculator Project
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Arithmatic formatter function receives simple addition or subtraction problems as a string and formats them into the traditional add/subtract calculation format (first line as first operand, second line as second operand, third line consisting a horizontal line and operator, and fourth line shows the final product).
The project description and requirements are as follows:
Students in primary school often arrange arithmetic problems vertically to make them easier to solve. For example, "235 + 52" becomes:
235
+ 52
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Finish the arithmetic_arranger function that receives a list of strings which are arithmetic problems, and returns the problems arranged vertically and side-by-side. The function should optionally take a second argument. When the second argument is set to True, the answers should be displayed.
Example
Function Call:
arithmetic_arranger(["32 + 698", "3801 - 2", "45 + 43", "123 + 49"])
Output:
32 3801 45 123
+ 698 - 2 + 43 + 49
----- ------ ---- -----
Function Call:
arithmetic_arranger(["32 + 8", "1 - 3801", "9999 + 9999", "523 - 49"], True)
Output:
32 1 9999 523
+ 8 - 3801 + 9999 - 49
---- ------ ------ -----
40 -3800 19998 474
Rules
The function will return the correct conversion if the supplied problems are properly formatted, otherwise, it will return a string that describes an error that is meaningful to the user. Situations that will return an error:
- If there are too many problems supplied to the function. The limit is five, anything more will return: 'Error: Too many problems.'
- The appropriate operators the function will accept are addition and subtraction. Multiplication and division will return an error. Other operators not mentioned in this bullet point will not need to be tested. The error returned will be: "Error: Operator must be '+' or '-'."
- Each number (operand) should only contain digits. Otherwise, the function will return: 'Error: Numbers must only contain digits.'
- Each operand (aka number on each side of the operator) has a max of four digits in width. Otherwise, the error string returned will be: 'Error: Numbers cannot be more than four digits.'
- If the user supplied the correct format of problems, the conversion you return will follow these rules:
- There should be a single space between the operator and the longest of the two operands, the operator will be on the same line as the second operand, both operands will be in the same order as provided (the first will be the top one and the second will be the bottom).
- Numbers should be right-aligned.
- There should be four spaces between each problem.
- There should be dashes at the bottom of each problem. The dashes should run along the entire length of each problem individually. (The example above shows what this should look like.)
The time calculator function receives a time and duration input and returns the time after the duration.
The project description and requirements are as follows:
Write a function named add_time that takes in two required parameters and one optional parameter:
- a start time in the 12-hour clock format (ending in AM or PM)
- a duration time that indicates the number of hours and minutes
- (optional) a starting day of the week, case insensitive
- The function should add the duration time to the start time and return the result.
If the result will be the next day, it should show (next day) after the time. If the result will be more than one day later, it should show (n days later) after the time, where "n" is the number of days later.
If the function is given the optional starting day of the week parameter, then the output should display the day of the week of the result. The day of the week in the output should appear after the time and before the number of days later.
Below are some examples of different cases the function should handle. Pay close attention to the spacing and punctuation of the results.
add_time('3:00 PM', '3:10')
# Returns: 6:10 PM
add_time('11:30 AM', '2:32', 'Monday')
# Returns: 2:02 PM, Monday
add_time('11:43 AM', '00:20')
# Returns: 12:03 PM
add_time('10:10 PM', '3:30')
# Returns: 1:40 AM (next day)
add_time('11:43 PM', '24:20', 'tueSday')
# Returns: 12:03 AM, Thursday (2 days later)
add_time('6:30 PM', '205:12')
# Returns: 7:42 AM (9 days later)
Do not import any Python libraries. Assume that the start times are valid times. The minutes in the duration time will be a whole number less than 60, but the hour can be any whole number.
The budget app utilises class definitions to return ledgers containing withdrawal and deposit actions of a spending category.
The project description and requirements are as follows:
Complete the Category class. It should be able to instantiate objects based on different budget categories like food, clothing, and entertainment. When objects are created, they are passed in the name of the category. The class should have an instance variable called ledger that is a list. The class should also contain the following methods:
- A deposit method that accepts an amount and description. If no description is given, it should default to an empty string. The method should append an object to the ledger list in the form of {'amount': amount, 'description': description}.
- A withdraw method that is similar to the deposit method, but the amount passed in should be stored in the ledger as a negative number. If there are not enough funds, nothing should be added to the ledger. This method should return True if the withdrawal took place, and False otherwise.
- A get_balance method that returns the current balance of the budget category based on the deposits and withdrawals that have occurred.
- A transfer method that accepts an amount and another budget category as arguments. The method should add a withdrawal with the amount and the description 'Transfer to [Destination Budget Category]'. The method should then add a deposit to the other budget category with the amount and the description 'Transfer from [Source Budget Category]'. If there are not enough funds, nothing should be added to either ledgers. This method should return True if the transfer took place, and False otherwise.
- A check_funds method that accepts an amount as an argument. It returns False if the amount is greater than the balance of the budget category and returns True otherwise. This method should be used by both the withdraw method and transfer method.
When the budget object is printed it should display:
- A title line of 30 characters where the name of the category is centered in a line of * characters.
- A list of the items in the ledger. Each line should show the description and amount. The first 23 characters of the description should be displayed, then the amount. The amount should be right aligned, contain two decimal places, and display a maximum of 7 characters.
- A line displaying the category total.
Here is an example usage:
food = Category('Food')
food.deposit(1000, 'deposit')
food.withdraw(10.15, 'groceries')
food.withdraw(15.89, 'restaurant and more food for dessert')
clothing = Category('Clothing')
food.transfer(50, clothing)
print(food)
And here is an example of the output:
*************Food*************
initial deposit 1000.00
groceries -10.15
restaurant and more foo -15.89
Transfer to Clothing -50.00
Total: 923.96
Besides the Category class, create a function (outside of the class) called create_spend_chart that takes a list of categories as an argument. It should return a string that is a bar chart.
The chart should show the percentage spent in each category passed in to the function. The percentage spent should be calculated only with withdrawals and not with deposits, and it should be the percentage of the amount spent for each category to the total spent for all categories. Down the left side of the chart should be labels 0 - 100. The 'bars' in the bar chart should be made out of the 'o' character. The height of each bar should be rounded down to the nearest 10. The horizontal line below the bars should go two spaces past the final bar. Each category name should be written vertically below the bar. There should be a title at the top that says 'Percentage spent by category'.
This function will be tested with up to four categories.
Look at the example output below very closely and make sure the spacing of the output matches the example exactly.
Percentage spent by category
100|
90|
80|
70|
60| o
50| o
40| o
30| o
20| o o
10| o o o
0| o o o
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Polygon area calculator consists of a parent Rectangle class and child Square class that receives width and height parameters.
Below is the project description and requirements:
In this project you will use object oriented programming to create a Rectangle class and a Square class. The Square class should be a subclass of Rectangle, and inherit its methods and attributes.
Rectangle class
When a Rectangle object is created, it should be initialized with width and height attributes. The class should also contain the following methods:
- set_width
- set_height
- get_area: Returns area (width * height)
- get_perimeter: Returns perimeter (2 * width + 2 * height)
- get_diagonal: Returns diagonal ((width ** 2 + height ** 2) ** .5)
- get_picture: Returns a string that represents the shape using lines of ''. The number of lines should be equal to the height and the number of '' in each line should be equal to the width. There should be a new line (\n) at the end of each line. If the width or height is larger than 50, this should return the string: 'Too big for picture.'. get_amount_inside: Takes another shape (square or rectangle) as an argument. Returns the number of times the passed in shape could fit inside the shape (with no rotations). For instance, a rectangle with a width of 4 and a height of 8 could fit in two squares with sides of 4. Additionally, if an instance of a Rectangle is represented as a string, it should look like: 'Rectangle(width=5, height=10)'.
Square class
The Square class should be a subclass of Rectangle. When a Square object is created, a single side length is passed in. The init method should store the side length in both the width and height attributes from the Rectangle class.
The Square class should be able to access the Rectangle class methods but should also contain a set_side method. If an instance of a Square is represented as a string, it should look like: 'Square(side=9)'.
Additionally, the set_width and set_height methods on the Square class should set both the width and height.
Usage example
rect = Rectangle(10, 5)
print(rect.get_area())
rect.set_height(3)
print(rect.get_perimeter())
print(rect)
print(rect.get_picture())
sq = Square(9)
print(sq.get_area())
sq.set_side(4)
print(sq.get_diagonal())
print(sq)
print(sq.get_picture())
rect.set_height(8)
rect.set_width(16)
print(rect.get_amount_inside(sq))
That code should return:
50
26
Rectangle(width=10, height=3)
**********
**********
**********
81
5.656854249492381
Square(side=4)
****
****
****
****
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The probability calculator simulates a hat experiment where the hats are filled with different colored balls and returns a probability of certain number and color to be randomly picked.
Description:
Suppose there is a hat containing 5 blue balls, 4 red balls, and 2 green balls. What is the probability that a random draw of 4 balls will contain at least 1 red ball and 2 green balls? While it would be possible to calculate the probability using advanced mathematics, an easier way is to write a program to perform a large number of experiments to estimate an approximate probability.
For this project, you will write a program to determine the approximate probability of drawing certain balls randomly from a hat.
First, create a Hat class in main.py. The class should take a variable number of arguments that specify the number of balls of each color that are in the hat. For example, a class object could be created in any of these ways:
hat1 = Hat(yellow=3, blue=2, green=6)
hat2 = Hat(red=5, orange=4)
hat3 = Hat(red=5, orange=4, black=1, blue=0, pink=2, striped=9)
A hat will always be created with at least one ball. The arguments passed into the hat object upon creation should be converted to a contents instance variable. contents should be a list of strings containing one item for each ball in the hat. Each item in the list should be a color name representing a single ball of that color. For example, if your hat is {'red': 2, 'blue': 1}, contents should be ['red', 'red', 'blue'].
The Hat class should have a draw method that accepts an argument indicating the number of balls to draw from the hat. This method should remove balls at random from contents and return those balls as a list of strings. The balls should not go back into the hat during the draw, similar to an urn experiment without replacement. If the number of balls to draw exceeds the available quantity, return all the balls.
Next, create an experiment function in main.py (not inside the Hat class). This function should accept the following arguments:
- hat: A hat object containing balls that should be copied inside the function.
- expected_balls: An object indicating the exact group of balls to attempt to draw from the hat for the experiment. For example, to determine the probability of drawing 2 blue balls and 1 red ball from the hat, set expected_balls to {'blue':2, 'red':1}.
- num_balls_drawn: The number of balls to draw out of the hat in each experiment.
- num_experiments: The number of experiments to perform. (The more experiments performed, the more accurate the approximate probability will be.) The experiment function should return a probability.
For example, if you want to determine the probability of getting at least two red balls and one green ball when you draw five balls from a hat containing six black, four red, and three green. To do this, you will perform N experiments, count how many times M you get at least two red balls and one green ball, and estimate the probability as M/N. Each experiment consists of starting with a hat containing the specified balls, drawing several balls, and checking if you got the balls you were attempting to draw.
Here is how you would call the experiment function based on the example above with 2000 experiments:
hat = Hat(black=6, red=4, green=3)
probability = experiment(hat=hat,
expected_balls={'red':2,'green':1},
num_balls_drawn=5,
num_experiments=2000)
The output would be something like this:
0.356
Since this is based on random draws, the probability will be slightly different each time the code is run.
Hint: Consider using the modules that are already imported at the top. Do not initialize random seed within the file.