You Do It #1: Creating a Top Ten List

"You Do It" activities are hands on activities where I ask you to read existing code, modify code to do something different, or consider the creation of brand new code. In some situations I will ask that everyone complete an activity. In other situations I will give you the option of how involved you get depending on what grade levels you teach and/or how interested you are in the topic.

All "You Do It" activities are non-graded activities (although I may ask you to submit something just to monitor your progress) created to have you engage with concepts that will be graded at some level in the competency demos. In that regard, they are there to enhance your learning.  In most cases, it is the process that I am after rather than the results. 

To Prepare

1. Next class period, you are going to analyze the following data file to find and print the ten most populous cities in Iowa.
   • Population of Iowa Cities (Data File)
 

2. You write some pseudocode
• Get out a piece of paper and a pencil
• Write down pseudocode (Wikipedia link) for at least one possible solution that you can come up with for the given task