Assignment 3 — communication

Due Monday before 2 PM

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Problems to be submitted

• directions.py

• utc_offset.py

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• It is important that you always read an entire assignment before starting your problem solving. It is definitely true for this assignment and will be true for future assignments.

• Following directions is a real world problem solving skill. For this course, points will be given for solving the assigned problem.

• Both exercises for this assignment have you complete a program that prints some information. Absolutely nothing else should be printed other than what is requested (this restriction includes preceding or trailing blanks).

• A partially completed program file is available for each exercise. Download the files and use them as starting points.

• It is important that you fill in the header information.

• If you submit a program more than once, the latest submission will overwrite the previous submission.

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Program directions.py

• Print one line of output. The output should be the word directions and nothing else whatsoever.

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Program utc_offset.py

• The current international time standard is now Coordinated Universal Time or UTC. It is the successor to Greenwich Meridian Time.

• Times around the world can be specified given by the UTC offset from Coordinated Universal Time; for example,

• UTC-04:00: corresponds to US and Canadian Atlantic Standard Time,

• UTC-05:00: corresponds to US Eastern Standard Time,

• UTC-06:00: corresponds to US Central Standard Time,

• UTC-07:00: corresponds to US Mountain Standard Time,

• UTC-08:00: corresponds to US Western Standard Time,

• UTC+08:00: includes cities such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Perth,

• UTC+09:00: includes cities such as Seoul and Tokyo,

• UTC+10:00: includes cities such as Port Moresby, Sydney and Vladivostok.

• If your UTC offset is not listed, let me know and I will add it.

• Your program should print the UTC offset in standard format for your place of living this semester.

• The only output is to be a single string on a single line. The string should have no spaces.

• All letters in the output should be in uppercase.

• If I were doing this program, my program would produce as output

UTC-05:00

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BTW (by the way)

• For program directions.py when printing the indicated word, all letters should be in lowercase except for the last letter which should be uppercase.

 

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