Create a High-Scores List (Challenge)

00:00 It’s time for the challenge that I promised you at the beginning of this course. The challenge is a bit more involved than the individual review exercises you’ve gone through so far because it requires combining all the pieces together in a single program.

00:14 You’ll start by reading a CSV file with player scores, which you can find in the supporting materials. Alternatively, you can create the CSV file yourself and copy the expected content from the slide you are currently seeing.

00:29 Notice that some player names appear multiple times in the file. That’s because the rows correspond to the players’ performance in a given game.

00:39 Your goal is to determine the top score of every player and save it to another CSV file where each row contains the player’s name and their highest score.

00:50 How you want to represent those scores in Python is up to you. Use what you learned in this course to store and manipulate the CSV data most effectively.

01:01 Over the next few lessons, we’ll tackle this challenge together, but please try to solve it on your own first.