3.1. Exercises

Dictionary Questions

Coding questions

Instructions:
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When you see ____ in a coding exercise, replace it with what you assume to be the correct code. Run it and see if you obtain the desired output. Submit your code to validate if you were correct.

Dictionary Basics

Recently Jeremy bought a new Ikea shoe rack. The packaging included quite a few parts and he is finding it hard to keep track!

Tasks:

• Make a dictionary that includes the quantity of each part included in the Ikea set.

The shoe rack contained the following parts:

• 8 Long Screw

• 8 Wood Dowel

• 2 Short Screw

• 1 Allen Key

• Construct the dictionary so that the part names are the keys and the quantities of the parts, are the values for the dictionary.

• Name the dictionary ikea_shoe_rack.

Hint 1

• Are you naming your dictionary properly?
• Are all your parts spelled correctly?

Fully worked solution:

Building a Dataframe from a Dictionary

The shoe rack was not the only thing Jeremy bought. below is a table of all his purchases.

	item_name	collection	price
0	Bistro Set	APPLARO	216.98
1	Shelf Unit	HYLLIS	11.99
3	Shoe Rack	TJUSIG	29.99

Tasks:

• Create the table above from a dictionary using pd.DataFrame.from_dict().
• Name your new dataframe ikea_df

Hint 1

• Are you using lists as the values in your dictionary?
• Are you making sure to use floats for the price?
• are all your items and collections spelled correctly?

Fully worked solution: