Resources for: CS 106 at Calvin College

• Working Remotely: here is a set of instructions created for CS108 (not our course) on how to work remotely and submit your work. Again, this is CS108, so some steps may be a little different, and you'll see references to CS108 in multiple places. Replace those CS108 references with CS106 and that should help.
  
  
• Coding conventions for Python for CS106
  
  
• Table of legal python statements
  
  
• Ideas for final projects:
  • Solar system simulation
  • Newton's cradle simulation (including transfer of momentum, etc.)
  • Trajectory of a ball, shot out of a cannon, with different wind conditions, etc., how it bounces, etc. <-- boring!
  • Simulate how cars go around a round-about vs an intersection with traffic lights or stop signs
  • New: simulate this Pendulum wave effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_AiV12XBbI (probably want to use vpython to do this).
  • Do something with the parts of Speech Tagger (sourceforge.net/projects/acopost)
  • Simulate Conway's Game of Life, or Water World.
  • Evil hangman
  • Solve a hard problem from projecteuler.net
  • Build a web crawler
  • Simulate people in a room distributing themselves evenly throughout it
  • Simulate the n-body problem
  • Predator-prey simulation (hard to get working well)
  • Implement force-directed layout
  • Flocking birds/fish
  • Fireworks simulation
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors simulation
  • Processing big data files, looking for patterns.
  • Solve a Kakuro puzzle automatically.
  • Provide a program that helps a person solve a Sudoku.
  • Simulate a solataire game and predict how often one can win it.
  • Show what kinds of hands one ends up with in poker if you are allowed to exchange cards 1 or 2 or 3 times.
  • Simluate the solving of some mathematical equations, perhaps using SymPy.
  • Demonstrate how Gaussian Elimination works.
  • Use DendroPy or something similar to do some phylogenetic stuff.