Lesson 29. Capstone project: document similarity
After reading lesson 29, you’ll be able to
- Take as input two files and determine their similarity
- Write organized code by using functions
- Understand how to work with dictionaries and lists in a real-life setting
How similar are two sentences? Paragraphs? Essays? You can write a program incorporating dictionaries and lists to calculate the similarity of two pieces of work. If you’re a teacher, you could use this to check for similarity between essay submissions. If you’re making changes to your own documents, you can use this program as a sort of version control, comparing versions of your documents to see where major changes were made.
The problem
You’re given two files containing ...
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