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Questions from Python For Everybody[edit]

Chapter 5:
- Exercise 1: Carly
- Exercise 2: Naomi
Chapter 6:
- Exercise 5: Yihan
Chapter 8:
- Exercise 4*, 5*
- Exercise 6: Tamara

Wordplay Challenges[edit]

Download this zip file and extract it to your Desktop (or the folder you are using for the class). Open the file "Wordplay Examples.ipynb" and run the first cell to make sure that it's working.

Use the examples given to answer the following questions:

Find all words that start with 'a' and are 9 or more letters long.
- Tiwalade
What is the longest word that starts with a 'q'?
- Jessie
Find all words that end with 'nge'
- Zhaozhe
Find a word that matches "a*ey" (here "*" means any letter). Are there any words that match?
- Ji-Young
Print every other word that matches the condition in (1) above.
- Vanessa
Find at least one word that uses all five vowels in order.
- Nate

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-* Complete [https://campus.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-python-for-data-science/chapter-2-python-lists?ex=1 Data Camp Intro to Python Chapters 2 and 3]
 == Questions from Python For Everybody ==
-* Chapter 5: Exercises 1 and 2
+* Chapter 5:
-* Chapter 6: Exercise 5
+** Exercise 1: Carly
-* Chapter 8: Exercise 4*, 5*, 6
+** Exercise 2: Naomi
+* Chapter 6:
+** Exercise 5: Yihan
+* Chapter 8:
+** Exercise 4*, 5*
+** Exercise 6: Tamara
-== Baby Name Challenges ==
+== Wordplay Challenges ==
-Download the [https://github.com/CommunityDataScienceCollective/CDSW_Babynames/archive/master.zip baby names data and code].
+Download [https://jeremydfoote.com/teaching/2020-summer/intro_to_programming/wordplay.zip this zip file] and extract it to your Desktop (or the folder you are using for the class). Open the file "Wordplay Examples.ipynb" and run the first cell to make sure that it's working.
-We will go through the babynames1.py, babynames2.py, and babynames3.py files in class. Once we understand what they are doing, you can use them as a springboard to write programs that do each of the following:
+Use the examples given to answer the following questions:
-# Search for your own name. Are there both boys and girls that have your name? Is it more popular for one group than for the other?
+# Find all words that start with 'a' and are 9 or more letters long.
-#* Hint: don't use a for loop for this one.
+#* Tiwalade
-# What is the most common name for each gender?
+# What is the longest word that starts with a 'q'?
-# What is the least common name?
+#* Jessie
-# How often does the least common name occur? (Does that bother you?)
+# Find all words that end with 'nge'
-# Are there more boys names or girls names?
+#* Zhaozhe
-#* What about that start with "a"?
+# Find a word that matches "a*ey" (here "*" means any letter). Are there any words that match?
-#* (Challenge!) For every letter, tell if there are more boys names or girls names.
+#* Ji-Young
-# What is the longest name in the dataset?
+# Print every other word that matches the condition in (1) above.
-# How many boys and girls are described in the dataset (i.e., how many boys and girls born in 2018 have names given to at least four others)?
+#* Vanessa
-# How many boys names are also girls names? How many girls names are also boys names?
+# Find at least one word that uses all five vowels in order.
-# What is the most popular girls name that is also a boys name?
+#* Nate
-# Discover at least one fact about the names that is not listed above.
-=== Above and beyond ===
-# Plot (in Excel) the number of people who share a name with n other people in the data set, where n is 4 to 19.