Python - Section 9 Practice Tasks
Task One
It is the national hockey championships and you need to write the program for the TV channel showing the live games.
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Let the user enter the name of the first country that is playing.
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Then let the user enter the name of the second country.
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Shorten country 1 to the first two letters.
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Shorten country 2 to the first two letters.
Example solution:
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Task Two
In some places, the letter G is seen as an offensive letter.
The government want you to create a program to count how many times the letter G appears in a sentence.
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Let the user input any sentence that they like.
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You need to count how many g’s there are.
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Then print the number of g’s there are.
Example solution:
Task Three
A pet shop has just ordered in a batch of new dog collars with name tags.
However, there was a mistake with the order and the tags are too small to display names longer than 6 characters.
You need to create a program that checks the user’s dog name can fit.
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Let the user enter their dog’s name.
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Calculate the length of their name.
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Use an if statement to see if it is greater than 6 characters.
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If it is then print – Sorry but our dog tags are too small to fit that.
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Otherwise print – Excellent, we will make this dog tag for you.
Example solution:
Task Four
It’s literacy week and the Head of English would like you to create a vowel checker program to ensure that year 7s are using plenty of vowels in their work.
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Let the user enter any sentence they like.
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For each letter in the sentence that they have just entered you need to use if statements to check if it is a vowel.
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You will need to use the OR operator between each statement to separate them.
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After the for loop you need to print the number of vowels they have used.
Example solution:
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Task Five
Remember the national hockey championships? Well, the company that hired you just fired you…
Never mind though, a rival scoreboard company want to hire you right away.
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You need to let the user enter two countries like last time.
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But this time you don’t want to calculate the first two letters, you want to print the last three letters.
Example solution:
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Task Six
Too many people are using inappropriate names on Instagram so they have decided to scrap the username and will give you a code instead.
The code is the 2nd and 3rd letters of your first name, your favourite colour and then the middle two numbers of the year you were born.
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Let the user input their name, then their favourite colour and then the year they were born.
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Using their data, calculate their new Instagram name!
Example solution:
