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| Each of the challenges this week will ask you to modify and work with code in the [[Wordplay]] project which you should have installed and begun working with in class.
| | ==Ideas for exercises== |
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| As always, it's not essential that you solve or get through all of these — I'm not grading your answers on these. That said, being able to work through at least many of them is a good sign that you have mastered the concepts for the week. It is always fine to collaborate or work together on these problem sets. The only thing I ask is that you do not broadcast answers before Sunday at midnight on Canvas.
| | * Find and print the words that start with "ee". |
| | | * Find and print the words that end in "mt". How about "gry"? |
| == Challenges ==
| | * Find and print the longest word that has no vowels. |
| | | * Find an print the words that contain 4 or more 'l's. |
| Challenges about finding words:
| | * Find and print the words that have all 5 vowels in alphabetical order. |
| | | * Look for other interesting properties of English words in pages like this quiz asking to find [http://www.sporcle.com/games/imabanana/uncommonwords English words with unusual properties]. How many can you solve with Python? |
| # Find all words that start with 'a' and are 9 or more letters long.
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| # What is the longest word that starts with a 'q'?
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| # Find all words that end with 'nge'
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| # You need a word that matches "a*ey" (here "*" means any letter). Are there any words that match?
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| # Print every other word that matches the condition in (1) above.
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| # Find the longest string where no character is used > 1 time.
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| Now we're going to start finding points! You can use scrabble.scores to get the scores for every letter. But we're going to cheat: assume you have all the letters.
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| # What is the most valuable word in the dictionary, and how much is it worth?
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| # You want to match a word that starts with an 'a', has an 'e' in the 4th slot, and is no more than 7 characters long. What is the best word you can play?
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| # Make a list that shows the most valuable word that starts with each letter. Example:
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| a: apophthegmatize, 37
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| c: chiquichiquis, 41
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| b: bezzazzes, 47
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| e: embezzlements, 37
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| d: decitizenizing, 36
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| .....
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