Editing Community Data Science Course (Spring 2023)/Week 2 coding challenges

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You are filling out a crossword and need a word that fits the pattern E*G****R. 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?

Use Python to answer questions like this instantly while practicing manipulating data from a file and engaging in a range of string manipulation tasks

==Setup==

Download the following file: 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_worked_examples.ipynb</code> as a Jupyter notebook and run the first cell to make sure that it works.
<!-- ==Handout==

[[Wordplay handout]]: goals and cheat sheet.
-->
==Goals==

* Have fun using Python to cheat at Scrabble and crosswords.
* Practice using lists, <code>for</code> loops, and basical tools for manipulating and asking questions about strings.

==Ideas for exercises==

* Find and print the words that start with "ee".
* Find and print the words that end in "mt". How about "gry"?
* Find and print the longest word that has no vowels.
* Find an print the words that contain 4 or more 'l's.
* 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?

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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?
+You are filling out a crossword and need a word that fits the pattern E*G****R. 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.
+Use Python to answer questions like this instantly while practicing manipulating data from a file and engaging in a range of string manipulation tasks
-==#0 Setup==
+==Setup==
-* Download the following file that contains the project for the week: https://github.com/CommunityDataScienceCollective/wordplay-cdsw/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
+Download the following file: 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 ==
+Once you have downloaded the file, extract the contents of the file into a folder on your desktop.
-# Find and print the words that end in "well" and be ready to tell me how many there are.
+Open the file <code>wordplay_worked_examples.ipynb</code> as a Jupyter notebook and run the first cell to make sure that it works.
-# How about "mt"?
+<!-- ==Handout==
-# How about "gry"?
-== #2 Counting vowels  ==
+[[Wordplay handout]]: goals and cheat sheet.
+-->
+==Goals==
-# How many words start with each vowel? Which is the most common vowel to find at the beginning of a word?
+* Have fun using Python to cheat at Scrabble and crosswords.
-# Which is the most common vowel to find at the end of a word?
+* Practice using lists, <code>for</code> loops, and basical tools for manipulating and asking questions about strings.
-# Find and print all the words that have all 5 vowels in alphabetical order.
-== #3 Disemvoweled ==
+==Ideas for exercises==
-# Find and print the longest word that has no vowels.
+* Find and print the words that start with "ee".
+* Find and print the words that end in "mt". How about "gry"?
-== #4 A cure for many ells ==
+* Find and print the longest word that has no vowels.
+* Find an print the words that contain 4 or more 'l's.
-# Find and print the words that contain 4 or more 'l's.
+* Find and print the words that have all 5 vowels in alphabetical order.
-# How many are there?
+* 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?
-== #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.
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