paceko / hackbright-intro-dictionaries

Dictionary Practice

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Start on the exercises

Complete these exercises in a file called dictionaries.py in this repo. Commit your work as you go!

1. Create a dictionary called my_stats with your name, age, and height.
2. Print out the string "[name] is [age] years old with a height of [height]." with [name], [age], and [height] coming from your dictionary.
3. Delete your age from my_stats
4. Create a dictionary called vocabulary_words that contains 4 vocabulary words from this course as keys and their definitions as values. (Hint: Look up at the wall if you can't think of any vocabulary words.)
5. Write a program that counts how many times each letter appears in your full name. Return a dictionary that looks like this: {'a':2, 'c':1, 'w':1}
6. Write a program that counts how many times each letter appears in a random string. Return a dictionary that looks like this: {'a':22, 'c':14, 'r':19, 'w':2}
7. Write a program that counts how many times each letter appears in a file. Use the file one_fish_two_fish.txt in this repo to test your program. Return a dictionary.
8. Write a program that counts how many times each word appears in a random string. When given "one fish two fish red fish blue fish" it should return a dictionary that looks like this: {'one':1, 'fish':4, 'two':1, 'red':1, 'blue':1}
9. Write a program that counts how many times each word appears in a file. Use the file one_fish_two_fish.txt in this repo to test your program. Return a dictionary.
10. Given a dictionary of items and their prices, write a program that returns the most expensive item. Hint: Look at the last slide in Dictionary Lecture to figure out how to iterate over a dictionary!

e.g. prices = { "banana": 4, "apple": 2, "orange": 1.5, "pear": 3 }

Your program should return "bananas"

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