Editing Community Data Science Course (Spring 2019)/Day 2 Coding Challenges

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.

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.

== Challenges ==

Challenges about finding words:

# Find all words that start with 'a' and are 9 or more letters long.
# What is the longest word that starts with a 'q'?
# Find all words that end with 'nge'
# You need a word that matches "a*ey" (here "*" means any letter). Are there any words that match?
# Print every other word that matches the condition in (1) above.
# Find at least one word that uses all five vowels in order.
# For every letter, print the word that uses that character the most. (Hint: use two nested for loops. First one is 
   
    for letter in 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz':
        # do something

# (Challenge) Find the longest string where no character is used > 1 time. (Hint: look up counters)

== Finale! ==

Use Python to find one other interesting fact about the data set. Examples (that you can't use) might be:
* One of the words that is tied for the most vowels is aquifoliaceous
* The word with the highest consonant to vowel ratio is sulphhydryls

== Extra assignments (if you want) ==

This is totally optional. Code Academy does have more exercises that cover lists and loops (starting on question 9) and I would encourage you to do them if you feel that extra practice would help.