Micro Challenge #13 – Optimising a dataset search

Welcome to the Thirteenth of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020

Today we’re searching and sorting data! (It’s more exciting than it might sound – we promise.)

What’s a Micro Challenge?

These challenges are short activities to help you develop, revise or refresh your coding skills, posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Micro Challenge #13

This week, our focus is on searching and sorting

One of the most important functions of a computer is being able to sort through data and find the requested information. 

In this Python-programmed game, you need to find the number, between 1 and 100, that the computer has selected.

The Challenge:

How might you go about finding the number? How many ways can you come up with?

Review it:

Play through the game several times and consider:

• Which system got you the fastest answer?
• Which works best consistently?

Advanced:

The numbers 1 to 100 represent the dataset that the game is working with. For the most consistently effective search, does the dataset need to be organised in a specific way? Why?

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