7. Exercises¶

1. We can represent a rectangle by knowing three things: the location of its lower left corner, its width, and its height. Create a class definition for a Rectangle class using this idea. For instance, to create a Rectangle object at location (4,5) with width 6 and height 5, we would do the following:

loc = Point(4, 5)
r = Rectangle(loc, 6, 5)

2. Add the following accessor methods to the Rectangle class: get_width and get_height.

3. Add a method area to the Rectangle class that returns the area of any instance:

r = Rectangle(Point(0, 0), 10, 5)
testEqual(r.area(), 50)

4. Write a perimeter method in the Rectangle class so that we can find the perimeter of any rectangle instance:

r = Rectangle(Point(0, 0), 10, 5)
testEqual(r.perimeter(), 30)

5. Write a transpose method in the Rectangle class that swaps the width and the height of any rectangle instance:

r = Rectangle(Point(100, 50), 10, 5)
testEqual(r.width, 10)
testEqual(r.height, 5)
r.transpose()
testEqual(r.width, 5)
testEqual(r.height, 10)

6. Write a new method called contains in the Rectangle class to test if a Point falls within the rectangle. For this exercise, assume that a rectangle at (0,0) with width 10 and height 5 has open upper bounds on the width and height, i.e. it stretches in the x direction from [0 to 10), where 0 is included but 10 is excluded, and from [0 to 5) in the y direction. So it does not contain the point (10, 2). These tests should pass:

r = Rectangle(Point(0, 0), 10, 5)
testEqual(r.contains(Point(0, 0)), True)
testEqual(r.contains(Point(3, 3)), True)
testEqual(r.contains(Point(3, 7)), False)
testEqual(r.contains(Point(3, 5)), False)
testEqual(r.contains(Point(3, 4.99999)), True)
testEqual(r.contains(Point(-3, -3)), False)

7. Write a new method called diagonal that will return the length of the diagonal that runs from the lower left corner to the opposite corner.

8. There are some games where we put a rectangular “bounding box” around our sprites in the game. We can then do collision detection between, say, bombs and spaceships, by comparing whether their rectangles overlap anywhere.

Write a function to determine whether two rectangles collide. Hint: this might be quite a tough exercise! Think carefully about all the cases as you code.

The code below contains a Chatbot class. A Chatbot is an object that can engage in rudimentary conversation with a human. You will be asked to define a subclass that inherits from this Chatbot superclass.

First, run the code below to talk to the chatbot. Then look over the code to make sure you understand it.

Your job is to make a subclass called BoredChatbot that inherits from Chatbot, but acts a little differently, in the following way:

• A bored chatbot has a short attention span. When the human says something that is longer than 20 characters, it should respond by saying:

Note that we are requiring you to use inheritance. Your new BoredChatbot class must be a subclass of the Chatbot class, and your subclass should only implement the things that make it distinct. (See the Inheritance chapter for a review of how this works.)