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develop a basic text-based spreadsheet program • read command-line arguments and perform file I/O • perform common string operations in Python • append items to Python lists • sort lists in Python using built-in routines
Kyle Dewey
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In this liveProject, you’ll play the role of a programmer who has been hired by a real estate developer to help determine what a fair market price for rent should be across a number of owned properties. The good news is that the real estate developer has gathered data into a spreadsheet (in a CSV file). The bad news is that the spreadsheet is so large that they can’t even open it in a typical spreadsheet program, let alone do any sort of analysis with it. They’ve asked you to develop an interactive program that will perform some basic exploration of the data. You’ll use highly popular Python to tackle this challenge, and gain valuable experience processing CSV files and sorting lists as well as working with files, strings, and command-line arguments.

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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