Python Dictionaries and List Comprehensions

🗓️ Today’s topics

• Dictionaries
• Tuples
• Lists and list comprehensions

🐍 Code Break

• Try working with lists
• Practice with list comprehensions

🎯 Project

Begin the project,Word Frequency . A dictionary will help you solve the problem of counting words. This will be due on Monday, 8/15.

At minimum you should be able to count words and print that count, even if the formatting of your output is not 100% on point.

🔖 Resources

• Python Docs: Dictionaries
• Documentación de Python: Diccionarios
• Python Docs: List comprehensions
• Python Docs: Comprensión de Listas
• Python list comprehensions explained visually
• RealPython: Python lists and tuples
• RealPython: Dictionaries
• RealPython: Sorting in Python
• Python Docs: Sorting HOWTO

🦉 Code & Notes

• NBA Scores Example
• What does if __name__ == "__main__" do?
• Notes: Lists, Dicts, and Tuples
• Intro to Python notebooks (Notebooks 7 & 9 especially)