Lesson 15.1 - Matplotlib 1

Prep for Class

• Read this MatPlotLib tutorial through the section called “Working with text”.

Installing Matplotlib

• Windows: python -m pip install matplotlib
• Mac: pip3 install --user matplotlib

Key Ideas

• Understand graphs.py

In-Class Activity

• Modify graphs.py to label the x-axis as x and the y-axis as y.
• Modify graphs.py to plot the straight lines with magenta dashes. Hint.
• Modify graphs.py to draw the sine wave with 5 point size.
• Modify graphs.py by replacing plt.xlim and plt.ylim (in the main function) with an equivalent plt.axis statement.

Active Learning

• Reproduce this graph as closely as possible.
• Assumption: There are 10 students whose student IDs are 1 through 10.
• Assumption: Practicum scores can range from 0 to 100 and are generated randomly.
• Assumption: You are Student 5. The label me appears below each of your scores.