File names: Names of files, functions, and variables, when specified, must be EXACTLY as specified. This includes simple mistakes such as capitalization.
Documentation: Each file should begin with a docstring that includes your name, the class number and name, the lab number, and a short description of the lab, as well as documentation pertinent to that particular file.
The project: Write a function that takes a parse tree for a mathematical expression and calculates the derivative of the expression with respect to some variable.
Symbolic derivatives: In calculus class we learned several rules for derivatives. For example, where A and B are arbitrary expressions involving x, and c is an arbitrary constant:
File names: Call your module derivative.py, your unit test module derivative_test.py, put them in a folder called csci112lab09yourname, zip and turn into canvas.
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