A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms in Python, Volume 1

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", ...