Module 2: Guessing Games

Learning Objectives:

Utilizing a simple Git workflow

• Editing Readme files
• Checking in/out code
• Pushing and Pulling code to/from a repository
• Accepting & merging Pull Requests

Understanding basic programming concepts

• Loops
• Basic user input
• Conditionals and Booleans
• Basic string indexing

RStudio Environment

PreClass Assignment

1. Complete the Guess that number assignment from PJS.

• Check-in and Push the changes to your local repository
• Check-in and Push a screenshot of you playing the game

Assignment (due 6/30/19)

1. Check-in and Push code from Module 0 and the pre-class.
2. Accept Pull-Request with your grades from the previous assignment.
3. Complete the Primer Guessing assignment described below.

• Check-in and Push the changes to guess_my_primer.py
• Check-in and Push a screenshot of you playing the Guess A Primer game.
• Place the screenshot in this Readme.md file so it properly displays.
• Add links to any resources used. This includes results of google-searches, Stack-Overflow posts, blog-posts, etc.

3. Add a link to the repo to BBLearn as your "Assignment".

Guess A Primer

Dozens of molecular biology techniques use oligigonucleotide primers as fundemental tools to answer bioligical questions. These primers consist of short segments (15-45bp) of single-stranded DNA that researchers use to create short double-stranded segments of initially single-stranded DNA. In order for this annealing to happen, they must identically match the target sequence (technically it must match the reverse-complement, but we'll deal with that in Module 6).

Make a program using the Guess That Number as a template and make a guess_that_primer.py file in the Module02 directory. Modify the code to have the following features.

• Replace the "guess a number" code with something that generates a random DNA string. Make the string 5 letters long.
• Provide the user with the number letters to guess.
• Check the user input against the target DNA string.
  • If the user guesses correctly. Print a congrats and exit.
  • If the user guesses incorrectly, Print the number of correct letters. Then allow another guess.

Rubric

PJS Grade:

Rubric	Score
Working Code	-/5
PEP8 Compliant	-/5
Comments	-/5
Screenshot	-/5
On Time	-/5

Guess A Primer Grade:

Rubric	Score
Working Code	-/5
PEP8 Compliant	-/5
Comments	-/5
Screenshot	-/5
On Time	-/5

Final Grade: -/50

Resources Used

• Random choices from lists: https://docs.python.org/2/library/random.html#random.choice
• template: https://github.com/biomed-bioinformatics-bootcamp/BMES-T580-2019/blob/master/Module02/Readme.md