Dictionaries
A Dictionary is an unordered collection of mappings/associations from keys to values. It is very similar to a Set and has the same performance, but stores a key/value pair, and only the key has to be Hashable. It can be used for storing preferences, or when you have a group of named values where there are either too many or change too often to be hardcoded. Then, you can use the names as keys:
The full name is Dictionary<Key, Value>, but it is more commonly written as [Key: Value].
Dictionary ignores the order in which values are added or removed, and may change them arbitrarily, just like Set.
Working with Dictionaries
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