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

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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 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.

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