Course Level
CS1
Knowledge Unit
Fundamental Programming Concepts
Collection Item Type
Assignment
Synopsis

In this assignment students create a program that calculates the number of medals awarded at the Sochi Olympics as it relates to the overall population. Using medal data information from the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi, students use population and medal count info to calculate the average number of medals per 10 million people. The results from the program are to be output to a text file.

Recommendations

This is homework 6 of a introduction to computing course in Python. See sequencing in the syllabus and course schedule. Additional guidelines for student success on this assignment and throughout the course can be found in the syllabus.

Engagement Highlights

By using the context of a recent Olympics, this material relates the CS topics to "real world" concepts and this employs Meaningful and Relevant Content.

Engagement Practices Employed

Computer Science Details

Programming Language
Python

Material Format and Licensing Information

Creative Commons License
CC BY