Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering
Programming Fundamentals
Instance: 2018/2019
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By the end of this class, the student should be able to:

• Use the main operations and methods available to work with dictionaries
• Describe the differences between dictionary aliasing and shallow copying

• 5.4 Data types: Dictionaries
  • 5.4.1 Dictionary operations
  • 5.4.2 Dictionary methods
  • 5.4.3 Aliasing and copying
  • 5.4.4 Counting letters
  • Sparse matrices
  • Memoization
  • Exercises

• Peter Wentworth, Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, and Chris Meyers, How to Think Like a Computer Scientist — Learning with Python 3, 2018 (Section 5.4) PDF

• J. Correia Lopes, Script and illustrations, 14-dictionaries.pdf
• FPRO, 2018/19, Python code, Lecture's on GitHub
• Brad Miller and David Ranum, Learning with Python: Interactive Edition. Based on material by Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, and Chris Meyers (Chapter 12) HTML
• Peter Wentworth, Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, and Chris Meyers, How to Think Like a Computer Scientist — Learning with Python 3 (RLE), 2012 (Chapter 20) HTML

• Dictionary operations and methods. Aliasing and copying. Sparse matrices. Memoization.

— FPRO, 2018/19

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