Applying skills learned in CSC165

I found it very interesting that something we've learned from CSC165 was very useful and relevant to courses outside of CSC165. For example, in our CSC148 project, one of our tasks was to compare two sets of elements to see whether they had any elements in common.

After reading the instructions for this particular task my partners and I instantly thought of Venn Diagrams, sets, subsets, etc. We were conditioned on how to approach this question logically through CSC165. So basically, what it boiled down to, was that we had to create a class method that would check whether two sets had no elements in common. In regards to Venn Diagrams, this meant that there must be no overlapping elements in the two sets (no elements in the intersection of the two sets).

Thinking about this logically, like we were taught in CSC165, was not so difficult anymore. What was even more surprising was that we've made very similar functions in CSC165 lectures. We've made functions that addressed these exact questions and the functions involved List Comprehension!

We were taught how to understand and make use of list comprehension in CSC165, but not in CSC148, and now my partners and I had the opportunity to apply what we've learned from one course to the other. It was an exciting moment!

The best part of this experience was that the class method worked flawlessly with the list comprehension and the method's body was only a one-liner; return one list comprehension.

Now, here's what I was talking about:

The required method's docstring:

"Return True iff there are no elements in common between this multiset and the other multiset."

Our body for the function:

return True not in [item in other.multiset for item in self.multiset]

This way, our function looked a lot cleaner and a lot more lines of space were saved because we didn't have to create actual looks to make this function (which we would have done if we didn't know about list comprehensions).