Outline for January 18

Due: Homework 1, due on January 18 at 11:55pm

1. Scope: global, local, parameters [scope.py]
2. Printing [printing.py]
3. Calculating π using a Monte Carlo method
   1. How you do it
   2. random module
   3. Building program in modules, including testing routines
   4. First step: computing co-ordinates of dart toss [mc1.py]
   5. Second step: see if a point falls within the unit circle [mc2.py]

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