Python Projects 1 & 2

This repository holds two small Python projects (Assignment 1 and Assignment 2). The files are in the project root and are ready to run.

Summary

• Project 1 (Python Project 1) — an iterative Prisoner's Dilemma tournament / strategy runner. File: Alter_J_assignment1.py.

  • Implements several strategies (always cooperate/defect, probing, adaptive strategies) and a small CLI that asks how many rounds and how many strategies to include in the tournament.
  • Interactive: it prompts for number of rounds and how many strategies to use, then runs pairwise matches and prints total scores per strategy.

• Project 2 (Python Project 2) — Apache log analyzer. File: Alter_J_assignment2.py.

  • CLI tool that parses Apache Combined Log Format lines and reports:
    • top active hosts (counts all methods)
    • top downloaded resources (counts only GET requests)
  • Filters by inclusive calendar date (MM/DD/YYYY) using only the date part of the CLF timestamp.
  • Includes tie-handling for the top-N lists (will include all items tied at the cutoff).

Quick usage

From the project folder (PowerShell on Windows):

cd 'C:\Users\Judah\Desktop\CS-School\ParaPython\CodeProjects'

# Run Project 1 (interactive)
python Alter_J_assignment1.py

# Run Project 2 (analyzer) against a local small sample
python Alter_J_assignment2.py apache_logs_small

# Run Project 2 with date filters (MM/DD/YYYY)
python Alter_J_assignment2.py apache_logs_small 05/18/2015
python Alter_J_assignment2.py apache_logs_small 05/17/2015 05/17/2015

Running on linprog (remote)

If you copied files to linprog or will fetch the sample log there, use these commands on linprog:

# download sample if needed
wget -O apache_logs_small 'https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~xyuan/cop4521/apache_logs_small'

# run the analyzer
python3 Alter_J_assignment2.py apache_logs_small

# run interactive project 1
python3 Alter_J_assignment1.py

Details & notes

• Project 1 is interactive and prints scores for each strategy after running pairwise matches.
• Project 2 prints two top lists and a summary line of kept/total lines. Dates must be MM/DD/YYYY.
• The assignment text uses textual defaults 01/01/0000 and 12/30/9999. The analyzer preserves those strings for display but maps them internally to safe Python date bounds (to avoid errors with year 0000).
• Do not commit large log files (e.g., apache_logs); add them to .gitignore.

How to push this README update

Run these commands from your project folder to commit and push the updated README:

cd 'C:\Users\Judah\Desktop\CS-School\ParaPython\CodeProjects'
git add README.md
git commit -m "Add comprehensive README for Projects 1 & 2"
git push origin main

If the remote is not set, add it first:

git remote add origin https://github.com/JudahA72/Python-Parallelism.git
git push -u origin main

Author

Judah Alter