Intro to Programming and Data Science (Fall 2024)/Week 5 Coding Challenges
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Python for Everybody[edit]
Chapter 9:
- Exercises 2, 3, 4, and 5*
Chapter 10:
- Exercises 1, 2, 3*
Dictionary and Tuple Notebook[edit]
Complete the exercises in today's notebook.
Baby Name Challenges[edit]
Download the baby names data and code and complete each of the exercises.
Above and beyond[edit]
- 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").
- 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.
