Programming for Lovers in Python: Dictionaries and Frequent Words
00:00 Welcome everyone (and Mom)
02:25 Deadlines, study buddies
05:00 Let's code! Why we need dictionaries
10:08 Adding to dictionaries
17:38 Bye, Florida
20:16 Dictionary literals, and updating if/else
27:30 Dictionaries are pass by reference
35:16 Ranging over dictionaries
39:37 Sorting keys of a dictionary
46:28 Getting values of a dictionary
49:25 Finding frequent words
59:46 Modularity is king
1:00:52 Maximum value in a map
1:11:01 Forming a frequency table
1:24:14 Finding frequent words in a real region
1:33:16 Looking ahead, and happy coding!
This video is part of Programming for Lovers in Python and covers an introduction to finding frequent words, finding clumps in genomes, and the skew array.
The material accompanies Chapter 1 of Programming for Lovers on "Hunting for Hidden Messages in Bacterial Genomes". It follows the code alongs shown below:
[Dictionaries] https://programmingforlovers.com/chap...
[Frequent Words] https://programmingforlovers.com/chap...
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