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Week 3 Assignment Analysis

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The instruction for this week’s assignment is “The area of a triangle is given by the formula Area = 1/2 * Base * Height. Using the IDLE development environment, create a Python script named t_area.py . Your script must calculate the area of a triangle and display the results of the calculation. The triangle that your script must calculate the areas for has a base of 12 inches and a height of 16 inches. IDLE has both an interactive mode and a script mode. You must use the script mode to develop your script”. I earlier created an account for the virtual computer lab, which gives me access to IDLE, a tool used to create python scripts and perform other task in python. I have been using this tool for some time, to practice coding in python, which …show more content…

I logged into Moodle in my computer’s browser and I eventually went to the computer science assignment submission page. It took me more than 5 hours figuring out ways to submit my assignment, but I still I did not succeed. In addition to my frustration, my computer is low on battery, and I am experiencing power outage in my entire community, a result of faulty transformer. Any way I had to search for a location where there is stable power. Several hours figuring out a way to submit my assignment, has proven useless, and by this time I am just looking on the desktop of the virtual lab, wishing a miracle should occur to solve my problem. I clicked a uopeople icon and a browser opened the virtual environment immediately the though occur to me that this was a step towards the solution. With my previous idea about virtual machine I knew that the lab was operating as computer separate from the physical computer that I was using. Besides that I have earlier seen a google chrome icon in the virtual lab, so I knew now that the only way to submit my work was to open moodle using the browser in the virtual lab to attach the programming file that I have created file. And that was exactly what I

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