COMP9021 Principles of Programming
Term 2, 2024
Coding Quiz 1
Worth 4 marks and due Week 3 Thursday @ 9pm

Description
You are provided with a stub in which you need to insert your code where indicated without doing any
changes to the existing code to complete the task. You may import any module that is already installed in
Ed if you wish.
The current code generates a random list of integers between 1 and 6 whose length is chosen by the user
and displays the list.
Your task is to output the absolute difference between the first and the last values, displays the values as
horizontal bars of dollars ($), and displays the values as vertical bars of stars (*).

Marking
Absolute Difference 1.0 mark
Horizontal Bars 1.5 marks
Vertical Bars 1.5 marks
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Total 4.0 marks

Due Date and Submission
Quiz 1 is due Week 3 Thursday 13 June 2024 @ 9.00pm (Sydney time).
Note that late submission with 5% penalty per day is allowed up to 3 days from the due date, that is, any
late submission after Week 3 Sunday 16 June 2024 @ 9pm will be discarded.
Make sure not to change the filename quiz_1.py while submitting by clicking on [Mark] button in Ed.
It is your responsibility to check that your submission did go through properly using Submissions link in Ed
otherwise your mark will be zero for Quiz 1.

Test Cases

$ python quiz_1.py

Enter two integers, the second one being strictly positive: 3 1
Here are the generated values: [2]

The absolute difference between first and last values is:
0

Here are the values represented as horizontal bars:

$ $

Here are the values represented as vertical bars:
$ python quiz_1.py

Enter two integers, the second one being strictly positive: 0 2
Here are the generated values: [4, 4]

The absolute difference between first and last values is:
0

Here are the values represented as horizontal bars:

Here are the values represented as vertical bars:

$ python quiz_1.py

Enter two integers, the second one being strictly positive: 0 4
Here are the generated values: [4, 4, 1, 3]

The absolute difference between first and last values is:
1

Here are the values represented as horizontal bars:

Here are the values represented as vertical bars:
$ python quiz_1.py

Enter two integers, the second one being strictly positive: 1 8
Here are the generated values: [2, 5, 1, 3, 1, 4, 4, 4]

The absolute difference between first and last values is:
2

Here are the values represented as horizontal bars:

Here are the values represented as vertical bars:

$ python quiz_1.py

Enter two integers, the second one being strictly positive: 2 13
Here are the generated values: [1, 1, 1, 3, 2, 6, 6, 3, 3, 5, 2, 5, 1]

The absolute difference between first and last values is:
0

Here are the values represented as horizontal bars:

Here are the values represented as vertical bars:


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