Biorhythms Assignment
ITECH1400 Foundations of Programming Biorhythms Overview In this assignment you will provide a Python script which will calculate the Biorhythms for an individual and present the data graphically using libraries and a common algorithm. Assessment Details Biorhythms were developed by Wilhelm Fließ, a colleague of Sigmund Freud, in the 19 th century and were very popular in the 1970s (Troutman, 1978); despite criticisms they are still used today in fields such as work safety to sports performance (Arab, Omidvari, & Nasiripour, 2014; Zareian, Rabbani, & Saeedi, 2014). The theory underlying Biorhythms proposes that, from birth, three cycles: physical, emotional and intellectual affect our performance. Understanding these cycles can help to optimise our potential. Figure 1 Biorhythm chart over the first 66-day period after birth (after Wiki) Although there are many ref...