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    <h1 id="practice-exercises-for-data-structures">
      Practice exercises for data structures
    </h1>
    <h2 id="overview">Overview</h2>
    <p>
      In this section, you’ll have a chance to practice the concepts you’ve
      learned in the videos. First, review the core concepts covered that you’ll
      need to keep in mind. Then go through the exercises below.
    </p>
    <p>
      Remember, these are for your own benefit. Feel free to skip them if you
      don’t find a particular exercise valuable or you get stuck for too long.
    </p>
    <h2 id="core-concepts">Core concepts</h2>
    <h3 id="creating-a-static-dictionary">Creating a static dictionary</h3>
    <p>
      You can create a dictionary a number of ways. How you do this depends on
      how much data is static and how much is dynamic as part of the program’s
      execution.
    </p>
    <pre><code># Static data styles:

# empty dictionary
names = {}

# A dictionary with players start at zero score
two_names = {&#39;player1&#39;: 0, &#39;player2&#39;: 0}

# This is the same as before
two_names = dict(player1=0, player2=0)</code></pre>
    <h3 id="creating-a-dynamic-dictionary">Creating a dynamic dictionary</h3>
    <p>If you have dynamic data, this requires something else to build them:</p>
    <pre><code>names = get_list_of_names()
scores = {}
for n in names:
     scores[n] = 0

# We can condense this using a dictionary comprehension.
# Same as above:
names = get_list_of_names()
scores = {n: 0 for n in names}</code></pre>
    <h3 id="reading-values-from-a-dictionary">
      Reading values from a dictionary
    </h3>
    <pre><code># Access a *known* value in the dictionary:
p1_score = scores[&#39;player1&#39;]

# Access a score, unsure whether player1 is a key, if it isn&#39;t there, return 0.
p1_score = scores.get(&#39;player1&#39;, 0)</code></pre>
    <h2 id="exercises">Exercises</h2>
    <p>Now it’s your turn. Try this practice below.</p>
    <p>
      The core idea in this chapter was about dictionaries and data structures
      in general. Create a simple program that creates a dictionary called
      <code>d</code> such that the following runs without error and prints what
      is expected:
    </p>
    <pre><code># d = create d using core concepts above.

print(d[&quot;Sam&quot;])          # outputs 7
print(d[&#39;rolls&#39;])        # outputs [&#39;rock&#39;, &#39;paper&#39;, &#39;scissors&#39;]
print(d.get(&#39;Sarah&#39;))    # outputs None
print(d.get(&#39;Jeff&#39;, -1)) # outputs -1
print(d[&#39;done&#39;])         # outputs True</code></pre>
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