Before Class

• Read the General Introduction from the section entitled What is Debugging? through the section entitled Experimental Debugging.

All Together Activity

• Write a program that calculates and prints the two roots of a quadratic equation, ax^2 + bx + c = 0.
• Demonstrate how to introduce a syntax error into the above program.
• Demonstrate how to introduce a run-time error into the above program.
• Demonstrate how to introduce a semantic error into the above program.

Active Learning

• Write a Python program that uses the compound interest formula to tell the user how much money will be in a bank account after 10 years when the initial balance is $1000, the interest rate is 5% and the interest is compounded quarterly.

All Together Activity

• Solve the compound interest problem. The correct answer is $1643.62.