EECS 1015 Lab 12

Goal

• Learning about classes and objects, enabling the creation of custom data
types.
• Developing crucial debugging skills to identify and fix various types of
errors in code.

Tasks

1. Guide you through the process of Creation of custom data types using
classes.
2. Developing essential debugging skills by identifying and fixing errors.
3. Applying object-oriented programming concepts to real-world scenarios.

Total credit: 100 pts

Deadline:

• Dec. 3rd 23:59:59.

It is an academic offense to copy code from other students, provide code to other students, let other
people (including the teaching staff) debug your code, or debug other students’ code.

We will check code similarities at the end of the semester.

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Task 1: Follow the Steps (50 pts)
In this lab, you will learn about classes and objects in Python. Classes are used to create custom data
types, and objects are instances of these classes. We will work on creating a simple class for representing
geometric shapes, specifically rectangles.

You are highly recommended to attempt the questions yourself before you look at the solution as a
way to learn.

Q1.1 Design and Define the Rectangle Class

Your first task is to design and create the Rectangle class. Follow these steps:

• Define a class named Rectangle.

In Python, a class is defined using the class keyword, followed by the class name (in this
case, "Rectangle"). Make sure the class name follows the PEP-8 convention, using lowercase
letters and underscores to separate words.

• Inside the Rectangle class, create an init method.

The init method is a constructor that initializes the class's instance variables. It is called
when an object of the class is created. It accepts the parameters length and width.

• Within the init method, initialize the instance variables length and width by assigning
the values passed as arguments to them and make sure the parameters are valid.

Instance variables are attributes that store data for each object created from the class. In
this case, we need to store the length and width of the rectangle.

Solution:

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 Note: here we use a new built-in function to check the type of a variable. You can use
the help() function to find the documentation of this function. In the past, we used
type(length) == float. This is not a good coding style. However, since you were not
introduced with the instance concept, we use it as a temporary solution. Now that you
know what instance is, so please use the isinstance() method to check for the type of the
varabiel.

Q1.2 Implement the calculate_area method

• Inside the Rectangle class, create a method named calculate_area.

Methods in a class are functions that can perform operations on the class's data (instance
variables).

• Implement the calculate_area method by writing code that calculates the area of the
rectangle. The area of a rectangle is calculated by multiplying its length and width.

• The calculate_area method should return the computed area as its result.

Solution:

Q1.3 Implement the calculate_perimeter method

• Inside the Rectangle class, create a method named calculate_perimeter.

• Implement the calculate_perimeter method by writing code that calculates the perimeter of
the rectangle. The perimeter of a rectangle is calculated by adding the lengths of all four
sides, which is 2 times the sum of length and width.
• The calculate_perimeter method should return the computed perimeter as its result.

Solution:

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Think about what the advantage is to create class methods compared with writing functions that take in
two parameters and return the area and perimeter. E.g.,

• calculate_area(width: float, length: float) -> float

• calculate_perimeter(width: float, length: float) -> float

Q1.4 Implement the setter and getter methods

Solution:

Note: Here we provide example code for getter and setter for the variable length. Please
write your own getter and setter for the variable width.

Think about what the advantage is to use setter and getter methods compared with manipulating the
attributes directly.

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Submission
• Go to eClass -> our course -> Week 13 -> Practice -> Lab -> Lab 12 Submission
• Copy your code to Task 1
• You can resubmit your code as many times as you need, but you need to wait for 5 minutes
before submission (You need spend some time debugging!).

Rubrics:
• You will get full mark for this question if you submit the solution (with no typo) to the required
location on Prairielearn before the deadline.

Note:

• since we provide solutions to this question, it is ok to submit it as is.

• In order for the autograder to work properly:
o You must NOT change the name of the methods nor the class
o You must NOT change the order of the arguments
• The autograder may take some time to grade

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Task 2: Debugging (30 pts)
Sam worked on a simple inventory management system for a small retail store, and wanted to create a
Python program that uses classes and objects to keep track of products and their quantities. Each
product has a name, and price, and quantity in stock. Sam needed to create a class to represent the
products and write methods to add and remove products from the inventory due to stocking or selling,
and calculate the total value of the inventory. Sam wrote the complete program, however there are a
few errors in the code. Help Sam to fix the errors.
The code to debug (lab12_task2.py) may have syntax errors, run-time errors, and semantic errors. To
help with debugging, you can use the debugger to execute the code line by line (you should fix the
syntax errors before doing this).

Requirement
• Your submission must be based on the provided code. There are simpler ways of doing this, but
you cannot delete all the provided code and write your own.

Submission
Copy the Python code to Lab 12 -> Task 2 on Prairielearn.

You can resubmit your code as many times as you need, but you need to wait for 5 minutes before
submission (You need spend some time debugging!).

Rubrics
• You will not receive any mark if you do not submit it to the designated location on Prairielearn
before the deadline.
• You will not receive any mark if your code violates the above requirements.
• You will receive 5 points if your code passes the test for the constructor for class Product
• You will receive 5 points if your code passes the test for the reduce_quantity method for class
Product. In this test case:
>>> laptop = Product("laptop", 2030.5, 2)
>>> laptop.reduce_quantity(3)
>>> laptop.get_quantity()
0
• You will receive 5 points if your code passes the test for the _find_product method for class
Inventory. In this test case:
>>> laptop = Product("laptop", 2030.5, 2)
>>> retail_store_inventory = Inventory()
>>> retail_store_inventory._products = [laptop]
>>> retail_store_inventory._find_product("laptop") is laptop
True

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• You will receive 5 points if your code passes the test for the _find_product method for class
Inventory. In this test case:
>>> laptop = Product("laptop", 2030.5, 2)
>>> retail_store_inventory = Inventory()
>>> retail_store_inventory._products = [laptop]
>>> retail_store_inventory._find_product("tablet") == None
True
• You will receive 5 points if your code passes the test for the stock_product method for class
Inventory. In this test case:
>>> laptop_1 = Product("laptop", 2030.5, 2)
>>> laptop_2 = Product("laptop", 2030.5, 3)
>>> retail_store_inventory = Inventory()
>>> retail_store_inventory.stock_product(laptop_1)
>>> retail_store_inventory.stock_product(laptop_2)
>>> retail_store_inventory._find_product("laptop").get_quantity()
5
• You will receive 5 points if your code passes the test for the stock_product method for class
Inventory. In this test case:
>>> laptop_1 = Product("laptop", 2030.5, 2)
>>> laptop_2 = Product("laptop", 102.09, 2)
>>> retail_store_inventory = Inventory()
>>> retail_store_inventory.stock_product(laptop_1)
>>> retail_store_inventory.stock_product(laptop_2)
AssertionError

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