Welcome to the forty-first of Altitude Foundation’s #MicroChallenges2020
Today’s challenge will help you practice spotting sequencing errors
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 #41
This week, we are exploring error-spotting.
The Challenge:
Today’s challenge focuses on spotting typing errors. Below are three sequences, one pseudocode, one Python and one JavaScript with sequencing errors. Can you spot the errors and make the code usable?
- A vote tallying programme (pseudocode)
vote tally a ← 0
vote tally b ← 0
“Enter your voter”
Press A ← USERINPUT
“Thank you for your vote”
OR
Press B ← USERINPUT
“Thank you for your vote”
IF press a, vote tally a ← add 1
IF press b, vote tally b ← add 1
“The new tally is” + vote tally a + vote tally b
- A sock matching game (JavaScript)
input.onButtonPressed(Button.A, function () {
basic.showSting(“1st!”)
basic.pause(500)
basic.showString(“” + (Socks_1[index]))
basic.pause(500)
basic.showString(“2nd”)
basic.pause(500)
basic.showString(“” + (Socks_2index_2))
}
if (Socks_1[index] == Socks_2index_2) {
Basic.showString(“Matched pair”)
Basic.showString(“Try Again”)
Basic.clearScreen()
} else {
Basic.showString(“Hurra!!!”)
})
- A programme which picks a song for you to sing to time washing your hands
from microbit import *
import random
answers = [
“Any Dream Will Do”
“Take On Me”
“Do-Re-Mi”
“All Star”
“Never Gonna Give You Up”
“Mr Brightside”
“Africa”
]
while True:
display.show(“Wash Your Hands?”)
if accelerometer.was_gesture(“shake”):
display.clear()
sleep(1000)
display.scroll(random.choice(answers))
display.scroll(“1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19”)
display.show(Image.YES)
Review it:
- If you want a clue, check out Challenge 40
- Remember, errors can occur in visual outputs too – not just in the code
- You can use the MakeCode editor to check the JavaScript errors or Trinket to check Python.
Advanced:
- The second programme is incomplete – could you complete it using the MakeCode editor linked above?
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