Thinkcspy Chapter 18: Classes and Objects Part 2
Octavia If you haven't already, take a look at Chapter 17, before you read this one, as this set of exercises relies on what was built in the last chapter. Just…
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Thinkcspy Chapter 17: Classes and Objects Part 1
Because the code for this and the next chapter build on each other, I'm approaching the way I talk about these two sets of exercises a bit differently than previous…
Thinkcspy Chapter 16: Python Recursion
The exercises in this chapter were some of the most challenging exercises I have encountered in this book. It took me a while to wrap my head around recursion and…
Thinkcspy Chapter 12 Lab 2: Letter Counting Histogram
This lab builds on the previous one, so check that one out before reading this one. Here are the instructions: The previous lab wrote a function to return a dictionary…
Thinkcspy Chapter 12 Lab 1: Counting Letters
The goal for this lab was to count the number of times a specific letter shows up in a given string. This is what they started me out with: def…
Thinkcspy Chapter 12: Python Dictionaries
Problem 1 Write a program that allows the user to enter a string. It then prints a table of the letters of the alphabet in alphabetical order which occur in…
Thinkcspy Chapter 11: Python Files
This lesson only had five problems, and thank goodness for that, because problem 4 really threw me for a loop. I've included all 5 here, because there are so few…
Thinkcspy Chapter 10: Python Lists
I'm not sure I'm starting to get a better handle on this stuff or if they were giving me a break this chapter, but this chapter was not as challenging…
Thinkcspy Chapter 9: Python Strings
This one was fun! I had no idea that manipulating strings could be as interesting as manipulating numbers or pixels. These exercises were certainly some of the more challenging ones…