Guidelines for completing and submitting homework
Refer to the first two paragraphs on the Grading Info page for all the details.  Briefly, you may not collaborate with your classmates while writing homework programs.  However, you may certainly consult Spencer on Thursday evenings or Dr. V on Friday afternoons as you create your programs.  (Email your program to me first to check that I'm in the office.)  Other QRC mentors may also be able to help out, depending on their experience with Python.  Once you have completed your program, or made as much progress as possible, email your program as an attachment to svandervelde@stlawu.edu.

Assignment
To begin, create a new document in Komodo and include these comments at the top
# Your full name
# Homework #7, Nov 2, 2012
# Individuals providing assistance, if any
Then save your file using the format LastnameHW7.py.

This week you will write a program that keeps track of (hypothetical) college rankings. To begin, define a list as

colleges = ["Allegheny", "Bates", "Bucknell", "Carleton", "Colby", "Colgate", "Denison", "Dickinson", "Drew", "Gettysburg", "Hamilton", "Holy Cross", "Kalamazoo", "Kenyon", "Macalester", "Middlebury", "Muhlenberg", "Skidmore", "St. Lawrence", "Trinity", "Vassar", "Wesleyan", "Wheaton", "Wooster"]

You can just cut and paste this line into your program; no need to retype it.  Now perform the following two operations on your list.

• To begin, we will create a random reordering of this list. (College rankings are essentially random, right?) So initialize a new list rankings to be the empty list.
• Now set up a  for j in range  loop that will execute as many times as there are names in your list.  During each pass through the for loop, choose a random name from colleges, append it to rankings and then remove it from colleges. WARNING: you will need to pay close attention to the range for your random number, since it will depend on the current length of the list colleges.
  
•  Finally, display your college ranking as a two column table, with the ranking number on the left and the corresponding college name on the right.  I will award a special prize for anyone whose rankings happen to randomly put St. Lawrence in the top three when I run your program!
  
• Now we will advance a school in the rankings. Ask the user to enter the name of a school. If the name entered is actually in rankings then delete it from its current position and reinsert it one position earlier. Then redisplay the ranking table to reflect the change in status of this school. (You can just cut and paste previous code.)