Community Data Science Course (Spring 2023)/Week 2 coding challenges: Difference between revisions

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Imagine 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.

#0 Setup[edit]

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 wordplay_examples.ipynb as a Jupyter notebook and run the first cell to make sure that it works.

#1 Alls well that ends well[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Find and print the longest word that has no vowels.

#4 A cure for many ells[edit]

Find and print the words that contain 4 or more 'l's.
How many are there?

#5 So long[edit]

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[edit]

Print out a list of every palindrome (a word that is the same reversed) that's over 6 letters in length.
How many are there?

#7 Something fun[edit]

Pick one other thing off this list of other interesting properties of English words in pages like this quiz about English words with unusual properties and write a Python problem to solve it.

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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?
+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?
-Use Python to answer questions like this instantly while practicing manipulating data from a file and engaging in a range of string manipulation tasks
+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.
-==Setup==
+==#0 Setup==
-Download the following file: https://github.com/CommunityDataScienceCollective/wordplay-cdsw/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
+* 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.
-Once you have downloaded the file, extract the contents of the file into a folder on your desktop.
+== #1 Alls well that ends well ==
-Open the file <code>wordplay_worked_examples.ipynb</code> as a Jupyter notebook and run the first cell to make sure that it works.
+# Find and print the words that end in "well" and be ready to tell me how many there are.
-<!-- ==Handout==
+# How about "mt"?
+# How about "gry"?
-[[Wordplay handout]]: goals and cheat sheet.
+== #2 Counting vowels  ==
--->
-==Goals==
-* Have fun using Python to cheat at Scrabble and crosswords.
+# How many words start with each vowel? Which is the most common vowel to find at the beginning of a word?
-* Practice using lists, <code>for</code> loops, and basical tools for manipulating and asking questions about strings.
+# 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.
-==Ideas for exercises==
+== #3 Disemvoweled ==
-* Find and print the words that start with "ee".
+# Find and print the longest word that has no vowels.
-* Find and print the words that end in "mt". How about "gry"?
-* Find and print the longest word that has no vowels.
+== #4 A cure for many ells ==
-* 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.
+# Find and print the words that contain 4 or more 'l's.
-* 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?
+# 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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