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Community Data Science Course (Spring 2023)/Week 2 coding challenges
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[[File:Crossword.png|200px]] Imagine you are filling out a crossword and need a word that fits the pattern <code>E*G****R</code>. What are your options? How many words have all 5 vowels in order? What's the only common English word that ends in 'mt'? What are the most possible points you can score with an English word in Scrabble? Python is a great tool for answering many of these kinds of questions! This project involves using our first "real" dataset: a list of every word in the English language from a scrabble dictionary. ==#0 Setup== * Download the following file that contains the project for the week: https://github.com/CommunityDataScienceCollective/wordplay-cdsw/archive/refs/heads/master.zip * Once you have downloaded the file, extract the contents of the file into a folder on your desktop. * Open the file <code>wordplay_examples.ipynb</code> as a Jupyter notebook and run the first cell to make sure that it works. == #1 Alls well that ends well == # Find and print the words that end in "well" and be ready to tell me how many there are. # How about "mt"? # How about "gry"? == #2 Counting vowels == # How many words start with each vowel? Which is the most common vowel to find at the beginning of a word? # Which is the most common vowel to find at the end of a word? # Find and print all the words that have all 5 vowels in alphabetical order. == #3 Disemvoweled == # Find and print the longest word that has no vowels. == #4 A cure for many ells == # Find and print the words that contain 4 or more 'l's. # How many are there? == #5 So long == # What is the longest word in the word list you've been given? How long is it? # Are there more than one word of that length? If so, tell me how many are that exactly that long. == #6 Palindromes == # Print out a list of every [[:wiki:palindrome|palindrome]] (a word that is the same reversed) that's over 6 letters in length. # How many are there? == #7 Something fun == # Pick one other thing off this list of other interesting properties of English words in pages like [http://www.sporcle.com/games/imabanana/uncommonwords this quiz about English words with unusual properties] and write a Python problem to solve it. [[Category:CDSW]]
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