Intro to Programming and Data Science (Summer 2020)/Day 3 Coding Challenges: Difference between revisions

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Check out the Wordplay project which was developed for a different version of this course, and complete as many of the following as you can.

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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 # Find at least one word that uses all five vowels in order.
 #* Nate
-=== Above and Beyond ===
-If you're feeling adventurous, try these problems and post your solutions on Piazza
-* For every letter, print the word that uses that character the most. (Hint: use two nested for loops. First one is
-    for letter in 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz':
-        # do something
-* (Challenge) Find the longest string where no character appears more than 1 time. (Hint: look up counters)
-* Use Python to find one other interesting fact about the data set. Examples (that you can't use) might be:
-** One of the words that is tied for the most vowels is aquifoliaceous
-** The word with the highest consonant to vowel ratio is sulphhydryls