Fundamentals of CS I (CS151 2002F)
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a. If you have not done so already, please scan the
reading on searching.
In particular, you should look at the sample procedures.
Make sure that you understand the purpose of
get-key
in binary-search
.
b. Make a copy of
search.ss
,
the library file that contains the code from that reading.
c. Start DrScheme.
a. Using sequential-search-list
, search for the letter
#\a
in various lists of characters.
Note that it's probably easiest to create a list of characters
with string->list
.
b. Using sequential-search-vector
, search for the letter
#\a
in various vectors of characters.
c. Develop some tests for search-list-for-keyed-value
.
For example, you might create a list of cartoon characters and their
sidekicks and search the list for character or sidekick.
Write a procedure that takes a predicate and vector as parameters and,
using sequential-search-vector
as a helper, finds a value
in the vector that matches the predicate or returns #f if no such value
exists. (Like sequential-search-vector
, this procedure
searches vectors; unlike sequential-search-vector
and like
sequential-search-list
, this procedure returns a matching
value, rather than an index.
Define and test a Scheme procedure,
(search-file pred? port)
that reads in Scheme values from a given input
port, applying a specified test to each one. When it finds a value that
passes the test, it should return that value; if it gets the end-of-file
object before finding a value that passes the test, it should call the
error
procedure to print an appropriate diagnostic.
In the accompanying library file,
you'll find lastnames
, a vector of the last names of
people in some of my classes.
Call the binary-search
procedure with appropriate arguments
to determine the position of your surname in this vector.
You probably want the get-key
procedure to resemble
(lambda (name) name)
If you look at the library file,
you'll find a list of student records called students
.
Write a procedure, (lookup-student lastname)
that
calls the binary-search
procedure with appropriate arguments
and returns the information for the appropriate student.
Add calls to display
and newline
to the
definition of binary-search
, so that it prints out the values
of lower-bound
and upper-bound
each time the
kernel procedure is called. How many recursive calls are made as
binary search finds your surname in the list? How many are made in the
course of an unsuccessful search for the surname "Stone"
?
The divide-and-conquer principle can be applied in other
situations. For example, we can apply it to a guessing game
in which one player, A, selects a number in the range from 1
to some value and the other player, B, tries to guess it by asking yes-or-no
questions of the form Is your number less than n?
(putting
in specific values for n). The most efficient strategy for B to
use is repeated bisection of the range within which A's number is known
to lie.
Write a Scheme procedure that takes the part of B in this game. Your
procedure should take the maximum possible value as a parameter. When
invoked, it should print out a question of the specified form and read in
the user's response (presumably, the symbol yes
or the symbol
no
), then repeat the process until the range of possible
values has been narrowed to contain only one number. The procedure should
then display and identify that number. A sample run might look like this:
> (guessing-game 100) Is your number less than 51? yes Is your number less than 26? no Is your number less than 38? no Is your number less than 44? no Is your number less than 47? yes Is your number less than 45? no Is your number less than 46? no Since your number is less than 47 but not less than 46, it must be 46.
Tuesday, 14 November 2000 [Samuel A. Rebelsky]
http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~stone/courses/scheme/searching-methods.html
Labs/searching.html
.
Wednesday, 18 April 2001 [Samuel A. Rebelsky]
Labs/searching.html
.
Wednesday, 20 November 2002 [Samuel A. Rebelsky]
http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/CS151/2002F/Labs/searching.html
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