Practice It: Python Data Structures

Brush up on your Python data structure skills and learn some new ones in this hands-on course.

Introduction

• Practice the Python data structures
• What you should know
• Using GitHub Codespaces with this course

1. Counter

• Try it: Count words from a paragraph
• Check it: Count words from a paragraph
• Try it: Finding the most common products
• Check it: Finding the most common products
• Try it: Doing inventory
• Check it: Doing inventory

2. Deque

• Try it: Storing a user's most recent food orders
• Check it: Storing a user's most recent food orders
• Try it: Palindrome checker
• Check it: Palindrome checker
• Try it: Scheduling tasks with Priority
• Check it: Scheduling tasks with priority

3. Namedtuple

• Try it: Store driver details
• Check it: Store driver details
• Try it: Reading CSV files
• Check it: Reading CSV files

4. Defaultdict

• Try it: Cleaning up duplicate data
• Check it: Cleaning up duplicate data
• Try it: Calculating gain and loss
• Check it: Calculating gain and loss

Conclusion

• Next steps in your Python data structures learning journey