Description
learning goals
In this lab you will practice implementing recursive functions where the input is a general Tree, as presented in lecture. You may want to review lecture materials.
You should work on these on your own before Thursday, and you are encouraged to then go to your lab where you can get guidance and feedback from your TA . There will be an online quiz during the second hour of lab, based on these exercises.
set-up
Open le ex6.py and save it under a new sub-directory called lab6. This le provides you with a declaration of class Tree, headers and docstrings for the functions you will implement, as well as two utility functions we think you’ll nd useful:
gather lists: There will be cases where you have a list whose elements are sub-lists, and what you’d really like is to concatenate them into a single list. That’s what gather lists does.
descendants from list: This function makes it less laborious to build a Tree from a list of data. It simply lls
in the tree, level by level, from a list, until it runs out of elements. You’ll need to save csc148 queue.py in lab6 to make this work.
Once you have familiarized yourself with the init method for class Tree, you are ready to proceed to the implementation of the functions below.
implement list internal
This function will list all the values from internal nodes of Tree t. The order of the list is not specied, and there is no need to remove duplicates.
Read over the header and docstring for this function in ex6.py, but don’t write any implementation until you ll in the steps below:
1. One of the examples in our docstring is simple enough not to require recursion. Write out an if…
expression that checks for this case, and then returns the correct thing. Include an else… for when the tree is not so easy to deal with.
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Below is a picture of a larger Tree, with several levels. Consider a function call list internal(t), assuming that t is a reference to the Tree. Are there one or more smaller trees for which it would be helpful to know the list of values that they contain? Which smaller trees are they? Write an example of a function call list internal on one of these smaller trees. You can access these trees through the variable t.
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Tree(0…)
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Tree(3)
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Tree(4)
Tree(5)
Tree(6)
Tree(7)
Tree(8)
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Suppose the call in the previous step gives you the correct answer according to the docstring: it returns a list of the values in the tree it is given. How will you combine the solutions for all the smaller instances to get a solution for Tree t itself? Write code to return the correct thing. Hint: You may want gather lists here. Put this code in the else… expression that you created in the rst step.
Go over these three parts. After that, ll in the implementation in ex6.py, and see whether it works. A
good approach is to comment-out all the functions you have not yet implemented, so that you will see only doctest results for the one you’re working on.
arity
This function returns the maximum branching factor of this tree.
Read over the header and docstring for this function in ex6.py, but don’t write any implementation until you ll in the steps below:
1. One of the examples in our docstring is simple enough not to require recursion. Write out an if…
expression that checks for this case, and then returns the correct thing. Include an else… for when the tree is less easy to deal with.
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Below is a picture of a larger Tree t, with several levels. Consider a function call that passes t as an argument. Are there one or more smaller trees for which it would be helpful to know the arity (branching factor) of? Which smaller trees are they? Write an example of a function call on one of these smaller trees. You can access these trees through the variable t.
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Tree(0)
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Tree(3)
Tree(1)
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Tree(4)
Tree(5)
Tree(6)
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Suppose the call in the previous step gives you the correct answer according to the docstring: it returns the arity of the tree it is given. How will you combine the solutions to all the smaller instances to get a solution for Tree t itself? Write code to return the correct thing. Put this code in the else… expression that you created in the rst step.
Go over these three. After that, ll in the implementation in ex6.py, and see whether it works.
contains test passer
This function returns whether at least one of the values in this tree returns True for the boolean function the user passes in.
Read over the header and docstring for this function in ex6.py, but don’t write any implementation until
you ll in the same steps as you did for the last two functions. At the end, review the three steps before
additional exercises
There are a couple of additional exercises in ex6.py as well as arity,list internal and contains test passer. Im-plement all functions recursively. These are likely to be very similar to the material you are quizzed
on during the second hour of lab. We’ve added test count internal basic.py, test count leaves basic.py, test sum internal basic.py, test sum leaves basic.py, to help increase your condence that your code works.
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