1 ## Worked Solutions to Wordplay Coding Challenges
3 This repo contains worked solutions to the problems in the Wordplay section of
4 the Community Data Science Workshops at the University of Washington. More
5 details on the CDSW are available at:
7 http://wiki.communitydata.cc/CDSW
9 ### Challenges about finding words:
11 1. Find all words that start with 'a' and are 9 or more letters long.
13 2. What is the longest word that starts with a 'q'?
15 3. Find all words that end with 'nge'
17 4. You need a word to match the phrase "a\*\*e\*y". Are there any words that
20 5. Print *every other* word that matches the condition in (1) above.
22 6. Find the longest string where no character is used > 1 time.
24 ### Incorporate Points
26 Now we're going to start finding points! You can use scrabble.scores to get the
27 scores for every letter. But we're going to cheat: assume you have all the
30 7. What is the most valuable word in the dictionary, and how much is it worth?
32 8. You want to match a word that starts with an 'a', has an 'e' in the 4th
33 slot, and is no more than 7 characters long. What is the best word you can
36 9. Make a list that shows the most valuable word that starts with each letter.
39 <pre>a: apophthegmatize, 37