Timeline for What are some good conditional branching excercise scenarios?
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| Jan 31, 2022 at 15:17 | vote | accept | Vladimir | ||
| Dec 3, 2021 at 14:35 | comment | added | Vladimir | Hi! They are mostly high-school so I'm first concerned about simple formula-code translation, grasping the intuition... I will mention that there are some quirks around floating points though. The previous exercise might be for example coding pythagoras theorem, prompting for whether one is looking for a hypotenuse or a hick. | |
| Dec 2, 2021 at 8:44 | comment | added | njuffa | @Vladimir If you decide to use solving a quadratic equation as an example, I would suggest to make sure to introduce the numerically advantageous way (e.g. along the lines of what I outlined here, so as not to proliferate bad practices that one later finds deployed in real-life code. The other proposed exercises do not seem to carry such risk. | |
| Nov 30, 2021 at 13:56 | comment | added | Vladimir | Thanks! These are good. The quadratic equation will blend right in with our previous exercises. | |
| Nov 28, 2021 at 23:24 | history | answered | user58697 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |