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intermediate Python
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write code manipulating Python dictionaries • write unit tests involving dictionaries • cover a variety of testing scenarios • implement a basic hashmap from scratch • use your hashmap to eliminate duplicate entries
Kyle Dewey
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Your real estate developer client has a large sorted dataset and the ability to zoom in on select parts of the data, thanks to the programs you’ve written for them previously. Now they’ve noticed duplicate entries in the dataset, and they’ve asked you to solve this problem. In this liveProject, you’ll create a program that will read in the large CSV data file, leveraging a hash map (which you’ll test and implement) in order to discard duplicate entries as quickly as possible. Though you’ll use the csv and unittest libraries in Python, you’ll write your own unit tests—a fundamental software engineering skill and a practical requirement on most real-world projects. Finally you’ll test your tests against Python’s existing dictionaries.

This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
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Kyle Dewey
Kyle Dewey received his Ph.D. in computer science from UC Santa Barbara and has been an assistant professor in Cal State Northridge's computer science department since 2017. He has a dozen scientific publications spanning programming language design, compilers, automated software testing, and computer science education, and has presented his work at top conferences in the field. Kyle has formally taught courses covering programming skills at all levels, including courses specifically related to the algorithms and data structures seen in this liveProject.

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