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Dictionaries and Arrays: Selecting the Ideal Data Structure (Quiz)

Christopher Trudeau
Dictionaries and Arrays: Selecting the Ideal Data Structure Christopher Trudeau 06:00
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Overview
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  • Dictionaries and Arrays: Selecting the Ideal Data Structure
  • Dictionaries and Arrays: Selecting the Ideal Data Structure (Overview) 02:36
  • Selecting the Ideal Dictionary
  • Built-in dict 09:01
    Exercise: Menu Lookup With .get() 08:00
    OrderedDict and defaultdict 06:35
    Exercise: Group Employees With defaultdict 08:30
    ChainMap and MappingProxyType 04:36
    Choosing a Dictionary 03:24
  • Selecting the Ideal Array
  • list and tuple 10:28
    Typed Arrays and Strings 06:39
    Exercise: Fix a Character in a String 08:00
    Binary Arrays 04:47
    Dictionaries and Arrays: Selecting the Ideal Data Structure (Quiz) 06:00
    Choosing an Array 02:01

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