Outline for January 29, 2018

Reading: §4.4

1. Unformatted and formatted printing [printing.py]
2. 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]
   6. Third step: read in a positive integer, with error checking [mc3.py]
   7. Fourth step: put it all together and print the results [mc4.py]

Matt Bishop Department of Computer Science University of California at Davis Davis, CA 95616-8562 USA

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