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+## Worked Solutions to Wordplay Coding Challenges

 
 

-This repo contains worked solutions to the problems in the Wordplay section of the Fall Community Data Science Workshop
-at the University of Washington, also identified by (https://openhatch.org/wiki/CDSW).
+This repo contains worked solutions to the problems in the Wordplay section of
+the Community Data Science Workshops at the University of Washington. More
+details on the CDSW are available at:

 
 

-Here were the questions:
-1) Find all words that start with 'a' and are 9 or more letters long.
+http://wiki.communitydata.cc/CDSW

 
 

-2) What is the longest word that starts with a 'q'?
+### Challenges about finding words:

 
 

-3) Find all words that end with 'nge'
-4) You need a word to match the phrase "a**e*y". 
+1. Find all words that start with 'a' and are 9 or more letters long.

 
 

-Are there any words that match?
+2. What is the longest word that starts with a 'q'?

 
 

-5) Print *every other* word that matches the 
-condition in (1) above.
+3. Find all words that end with 'nge'

 
 

-6) Find the longest string where no character is used > 1 time.
+4. You need a word to match the phrase "a\*\*e\*y".  Are there any words that
+   match?

 
 

-Now we're going to start finding points! You can use scrabble.scores to get the scores for every letter.
-But we're going to cheat: assume you have all the letters.
+5. Print *every other* word that matches the condition in (1) above.

 
 

-7) What is the most valuable word in the dictionary, and how much is it worth?
+6. Find the longest string where no character is used > 1 time.

 
 

-8) You want to match a word that starts with an 'a', has an 'e' in the 4th slot, and is no more than 7 characters long. What is the best word you can play?
+### Incorporate Points

 
 

-(*) 9) Make a list that shows the most valuable word that starts with each letter.
-Example:
+Now we're going to start finding points! You can use scrabble.scores to get the
+scores for every letter.  But we're going to cheat: assume you have all the
+letters.

 
 

-    a: apophthegmatize, 37
-    c: chiquichiquis, 41
-    b: bezzazzes, 47
-    e: embezzlements, 37
-    d: decitizenizing, 36
-    .....
+7. What is the most valuable word in the dictionary, and how much is it worth?

 
 

+8. You want to match a word that starts with an 'a', has an 'e' in the 4th
+   slot, and is no more than 7 characters long. What is the best word you can
+   play?
+
+9. Make a list that shows the most valuable word that starts with each letter.
+   For example:
+
+<pre>a: apophthegmatize, 37
+c: chiquichiquis, 41
+b: bezzazzes, 47
+e: embezzlements, 37
+d: decitizenizing, 36
+.....</pre>
+
+
+### Wordplay Project Ideas
+
+The [Wordplay wiki page](http://wiki.communitydata.cc/Wordplay) also include
+several ideas for projects. These are listed as idea\_1.py, etc. in the
+directory:
+
+1. Find and print the words that start with "ee".
+2. Find and print the words that end in "mt". How about "gry"?
+3. Find and print the longest word that has no vowels.
+4. Find an print the words that contain 4 or more 'l's.
+5. Find and print the words that have all 5 vowels in alphabetical order.