A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

Exercises

The following exercises provide you with the opportunity to practice with optimizing your code. The solutions to these exercises are found in the section, ​Chapter 20​.

1. You’re working on software that analyzes sports players. Following are two arrays of players of different sports:

   basketball_players = [
     {first_name: "Jill", last_name: "Huang", team: "Gators"},
     {first_name: "Janko", last_name: "Barton", team: "Sharks"},
     {first_name: "Wanda", last_name: "Vakulskas", team: "Sharks"},
     {first_name: "Jill", last_name: "Moloney", team: "Gators"},
     {first_name: "Luuk", last_name: "Watkins", team: "Gators"}
   ]
   
   football_players = [
     {first_name: "Hanzla", last_name: "Radosti", team: "32ers"},
    {first_name: "Tina", last_name: "Watkins", ...