3. Donuts¶

Walkthrough¶

Imagine you’re an American tourist in London. You’re very hungry, but can’t figure out how many orders of fish-and-chips you can afford. They cost £4.79 (4 pounds, 79 pence) for one order, but the conversion rates are confusing! Let’s write a program that asks

• The current dollar-to-pound exchange rate (eg, $1.00 is £0.76 right now when I’m writing this)
• How many dollars you’re willing to spend.

and tells us how many orders of fish-and-chips we can afford.

Studio¶

Here’s the scenario:

You run a hip new artisanal donut shop, the Loop Hole, which, in its short lifetime, has already rocked the boutique-desserts market with numerous “disruptions”, including:

• a minimalist menu consisting of just one type of donut per day: Manager’s Special... always Manager’s Special.
• giving customers the option to order fractional amounts of donuts, e.g. 1.7 donuts, please.
• a progressive pay-what-you-want pricing system, in which the customer pays what s/he thinks is a fair price. (Of course, you do provide a “suggested price”.)

Now it’s time to implement your latest innovation, an app via which users can pre-order donuts remotely from the convenience of... the command-line terminal on their computer.

In the editor below, write a program which introduces the flavor of the day, and then takes the user’s order.

Taking their order involves asking two questions:

1. How many donuts do they want to buy?
2. How much do you want to pay per donut?

After getting input, you should:

3. Inform the user of the total cost of their order.
4. Don’t forget to include sales-tax, which is, let’s say, 5%.

Here’s an example of how the finished program should behave. Note that lines starting with >>> represent user input.

Welcome to the Loop Hole!
Today's Manager's Special is:
Crunch Jelly: A traditional jelly donut in which the jelly filling is made entirely of Capn' Crunch Oops! All Berries
How many would you like?
>>> 3.33333
How much would you like to pay per donut (suggested price is $4.35 each)?
>>> 2.5
Ok, let me prepare that for you....
After tax, your total is: $8.74999125
Thank you for snacking! Loop back around here soon!

Notice that the total price $8.74999125 went way beyond 2 decimal places. Obviously it would be a little nicer to round that to $8.75. We haven’t learned this yet, but you’ll be able to do this later. Don’t worry about it now.

(Also, don’t be concerned if your program gives an answer with a slightly different number of decimal places than the example program above. This is just a precision issue.)

For the Manager’s Special, you can make something up (you are the Manager, after all), or just use the Crunch Berries example. Whatever you decide, you can simply hard-code it directly into your code. In other words, the flavor doesn’t actually have to change depending on what day it is. The important part of this Studio is the process involved in calculating the cost of the user’s order.

Challenge Problems¶

If you’ve finished the studio and have time to spare, here are a few ideas of improvements you could make to your program.

1. Try to fix the $7.3949111 formatting so that it only shows two decimal digits. $7.39, much nicer.
2. If a customer tries to pay less than half the suggested price, admonish them a little bit: “Hey, I’m trying to make a living here!”. You’ll need to google “python if statements”.
3. Try to get the final price to show exactly two digits after the decimal, even if the price ends with a 0: $5.60 rather than $5.6