Outline:

0. Questions?
1. Modeling probabilities
   • flipping a fair coin
   • flipping an unfair (weighted) coin
2. Top-down design
   • overall goal
   • example: rolling dice: Exercise 1
   • aside: visualizing results with Matplotlib: Exercise 2
3. Project work time: try top-down design for yourself!

Explore after class:

4. Modeling probabilities
   • unfair dice: Exercise 3
5. More practice with top-down design
   • four of a kind: Exercise 4
   • building towards Yahtzee: Exercise 5

What’s next

Upcoming events/assessments:

• CS Bits and Bytes Thursday from 4:30pm-5:30pm in Olin 149: John Clapp ‘91 from Deriva Energy
• Carleton Undergraduate Research Symposium: Friday Oct. 17 from 4:30-5:30pm in the Rec Center
• Homework assignment 5 is all about graphing via Matplotlib and due this Thursday

What you should do now:

• The readings (see below)
• Work on Assignment 5
• Start your project using top-down design, if you haven’t started already, or start to organize your code a bit if you have!

Reading assignment (to be completed by the next class):

• Zelle sections 11.1–11.3 (pp. 333–351)