COMM5007
Coding for Business
Individual Assignment
T1 2025
This assignment covers Lecture 1 to 4. It accounts for 10% of the final grade for COMM5007 Coding for Business. The deadline is W5 Friday, 21 March 2025,
@11:59pm. Do not wait till last minute. Late submissions (even by a few seconds) will still incur penalty.
You are to submit a WORD document (not PDF) to Moodle, Individual Assignment > Individual Assignment Submission. Turnitin is turned on to check similarity score among all submissions. To avoid a high Turnitin score, do NOT copy the assignment questions into the report.
Every page’s header should contain Subject Code “COMM5007”, Title “Individual Assignment”, Your zID, similar to the Individual Assignment guideline file. Do NOT write your name. A cover page is optional.
Please use "Your zID" for Submission Title when you upload. The file name should also be “Your zID.docx”. Submissions that do not adhere to this will be penalized.
Details of report format:
Length: should not exceed 3 pages, including the relevant graphs, tables,
references, screenshots, and appendices (if any), but excluding the cover page (a cover page is optional).
Font Style. Times New Roman for writing; Courier New for code
Font size: 12 for writing; 10 for code
Line spacing: 1
Margins: 1 inch or 2.5cm for the top, bottom, right and left
Include the page number on each page
Up to 25 marks of penalties will be imposed for inappropriate or poor paraphrasing.
Serious cases will be investigated. More information on effective paraphrasing
strategies can be found on https://www.student.unsw.edu.au/paraphrasing- summarising-and-quoting.
Your writing should be succinct but not at the expense of excluding relevant details.
Use plain and simple language. Some questions may not come with absolutely right or wrong answers, and you have the liberty to express your views about the problem.
However, your points must be supported by evidence and sound reasoning. It is the quality and not the length that counts. Make sure you follow the report guidelines and style. specified in this assignment.
Where students use ChatGPT or any Generative AI tool in their work, this must be appropriately cited according to discipline norms, e.g., right below the written paragraph that used Generative AI, or included in appendix. Most referencing formats have now released approaches to referencing Generative AI, e.g.,
https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt.
The answers should be presented in order according to the sequence of the questions listed in the assignment; that is, in the order of Q1, Q2,..., etc. You can have several sub-sections within a section if you deem appropriate. The report must be self-contained. It is essential to include all relevant tables and figures as evidence to support your answers.
Suggestions:
• Write clearly in plain English
• Write appropriately to the context
• Cite appropriate sources
• Provide a reference or bibliography at the end of the main report
• Include less relevant details in the Appendix
• Good overall presentation of the report
Write Python code that generates a heart (e.g., a filled heart shown above) using loops and print statements. The program should use a variable n to control the size of the shape, meaning if n is 10, the heart should be smaller, and if n is 20, it should be larger.
• You may use characters such as *, #, or any other symbols to represent the shape.
• Ensure that the output dynamically adjusts based on the value of n.
• Feel free to be creative and design a heart that brings happiness to you.
Question 1: First, use ChatGPT to generate an initial version of the code. Then, refine it using your own knowledge. Next, have ChatGPT improve your revised version, and continue iterating—modifying ChatGPT’s updates and seeking further refinements— until you reach a satisfactory result. Document each improvement step by step in the format below, covering multiple iterations as needed. (20 marks)
My prompt:
Describe the pattern that we want ChatGPT to generate.
ChatGPT’s response:
Certainly! You can use below code …
Paste all code in a shaded text box like this
Font: size 10, Courier New
Break one long line of code into multiple lines with “ \”, if
necessary, e.g., the below is considered one line of code by Python.
print(3,4,5,\
6,7,True)
My reflection:
This can be what is still not right. Or what manual change can be done to ChatGPT’s code directly, based on your understanding as a human coder. Write your thoughts and analysis here.
My prompt:
Describe what ChatGPTshall correct to reach the exact pattern based on your previous reflection. This prompt can include the code that we modified manually and want ChatGPT to continue to improve.
Your modified code for ChatGPT to continue to improve
ChatGPT’s response:
…
My reflection:
…
My prompt:
…
Question 2: Write a Python program to generate the shape, which has been generated in Question 1. Regardless of whether you used AI tools or not, you must explain each line of code in your own words by adding comments under each line. The clarity and depth of your explanations will determine your score. (10 marks)
What is assessed in Questions:
- The quality of the final code
- The comments in the final code
- The thought process to analyze the code as a human coder, which
demonstrates students’ technical ability. This thought process is reflected in your prompts for ChatGPT and your reflections as a human coder
- The quality of writing in the prompts and reflections (clear language, structure)
- The thought process to analyze the code as a human coder, which
demonstrates students’ technical ability. This thought process is reflected in your prompts for ChatGPT and your reflections as a human coder
- The quality of writing in the prompts and reflections (clear language, structure)