Lecture 4: Conditionals and practice

Schedule for today

From last class

• Extra question for the Favia exercise:
  • Which is the longest species name in the dataset?
  • Which stage(s) (stg number) is/are its occurrences from?
• Nested if exercise. Use this decision tree to implement the nested if statements!

Exercises for today

• Pair programming: form pairs and work together on this exercise: Brachiopods in OBIS

Homework

Functions

• Functions: reason to write functions
• Functions: function syntax