THE LETTER I WISH I COULD WRITE TO MY FORMER SELF, AND HAVE BEAMED AT LIGHT-SPEED THROUGH SOME KIND OF VACUUM TUBE AND DELIVERED AT THE PRECISE MOMENT WHEN I FINALLY DECIDED TO LEARN TO PROGRAM.

Discuss midterm projects, and how they'll be graded. In particular, what's expected for documentation and sample input/output.

We talked about maintaining state, and gave a deck of cards as an example, using the attached state.py short pythong program.

Alex mentioned using this plotting package:

Review craps program from last class. I added average and standard deviation of result rather than just (max-min), and fixed the documentation to match what's expected for a midterm project. The modified code, including mean and standard deviation, is attached below.

With midterm projects in the works I don't want to start new material yet. So instead

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