Intro to Programming and Data Science (Fall 2022)/Week 5 Coding Challenges

Python for Everybody

Chapter 9:

• Exercises 2, 3, 4, and 5*
  • Dyuti, Luhao, Paxton

Chapter 10:

• Exercises 1, 2, 3*
  • Hazel, Ajay, Christina

Dictionary and Tuple Notebook

Complete the exercises in today's notebook.

• Ryan, Elisa

Baby Name Challenges

Download the baby names data and code and complete each of the exercises.

• Miriam, Bhakti, Chiara, Angela, Woojin, Keqin, Dyuti, Luhao, Paxton

Above and beyond

1. Write a function that takes a prefix as input and prints the number of boys and girls with that prefix (e.g., get_names("m") would list all names that start with "m" and get_names("ma") would only list those that start with "ma").
2. Plot (in Excel) the number of people who share a name with n other people in the data set, where n is 4 to 19.