Tag: CSV

Olympics Host Cities (CSV Challenge)

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For this challenge we are going to work with a list of host cities of the Olympic Games since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Our list will include both Summer and Winter games. This information is stored in a…

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Egg Code Stamp Decoder

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Did you know that in the UK (and also in most European countries), the eggs you buy in a shop must be stamped with a code that can help you find out more about how and where your eggs were…

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Italian Takeaway Ordering System

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An Italian Takeaway is asking you to write a computer program to facilitate the ordering process and automatically calculate the total cost of an order. They have stored their menu and all prices into a text file with the following…

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Cinema Booking Challenge

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A cinema has created a booking system for their main theatre which consists of 48 seats, organised in 6 rows of 8 seats. To store information as to whether a seat is booked or available, the program uses a 2-dimensional…

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Break Even Point

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In Business or Economics the Break Even Point (BEP) is the point at which the total of fixed and variable costs of a business becomes equal to its total revenue. At this point, a business neither earns any profit nor…

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Kings & Queens of England

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Portrait of Henry VIII There have been 66 monarchs of England and Britain spread over a period of 1500 years. For this Python challenge you will use a text file listing all of these monarchs in chronological order. You will…

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Leaderboard

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Before completing this challenge you will need to make sure you have already completed a game or a quiz in Python with a scoring system. You will then add a leaderboard functionality to your existing game or quiz in order…

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London 2012

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Learning Objectives In this challenge we are going to investigate methods that can be used to: Read and extract data from a text file, Sort this data in ascending or descending order, Display this sorted data on screen. Context We…

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