CS 115 Lab 5, Part A: Print points

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Instructions

1. Review the description of peaks and valleys in the pre-lab instructions.
2. Create a new Python source code file named lab05a.py:

   """
   Program: CS 115 Lab 5a
   Author: Your name
   Description: This program reads a bunch of y-values from a file.
   """
   
   
   def main():
       # Opens the input file - you don't have to understand this line
       pointsfile = open("points-test.txt", "r")
   
       # Reads and prints the first line of the input file
       num_points = int(pointsfile.readline())
       print('Number of points:', num_points)
   
       # Reads and prints the points
       for i in range(0, num_points):
           y = int(pointsfile.readline())
           print('Point ', i + 1, ': ', y, sep="")
   
       pointsfile.close() # Closes the input file after reading it
   
   
   main()

3. This program simply reads and prints the set of points. Since it would be tiresome to enter these points one at a time, we are reading them from one of the text files you downloaded (points-test.txt). The first line of the text file is the number of points to read, and the remaining lines are the y-values of the different points.

4. Run this program, and answer Question 1 in your writeup. Call for help if the program crashes because it can't find the input file.
5. Continue to Part B.