Joel Allen Schroeder’s documentary, Dear Mr. Watterson, explores the legacy Bill Watterson has had on popular culture, mainly through the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. This strip is regularly cited as one that elevated the entire medium of comic strips to high art, a categorization that has traditionally been reserved for paintings and sculptures found in fancy museums. Throughout your viewing, list three arguments for why Calvin and Hobbes, if not comic strips in general, should be elevated to high art status. (3)

Write a program called assignment3 (saved in a file assignment3.java) that computes the greatest common divisor of two given integers. one of the oldest numerical algorithms was described by the greek mathematician, euclid, in 300 b.c. it is a simple but very e↵ective algorithm that computes the greatest common divisor of two given integers. for instance, given integers 24 and 18, the greatest common divisor is 6, because 6 is the largest integer that divides evenly into both 24 and 18. we will denote the greatest common divisor of x and y as gcd(x, y). the algorithm is based on the clever idea that the gcd(x, y) = gcd(x ! y, y) if x > = y and gcd(x, y) = gcd(x, y ! x) if x < y. the algorithm consists of a series of steps (loop iterations) where the “larger” integer is replaced by the di↵erence of the larger and smaller integer. this continues until the two values are equal. that is then the gcd.

Amanda needs to create an informative print brochure for her local library’s fundraiser dinner. what critical detail must she have before she starts designing the brochure?

In this lab, you complete a python program that calculates an employee's annual bonus. input is an employee's first name, last name, salary, and numeric performance rating. if the rating is 1, 2, or 3, the bonus rate used is .25, .15, or .1 respectively. if the rating is 4 or higher, the rate is 0. the employee bonus is calculated by multiplying the bonus rate by the annual salary.