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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.
Manning author Kyle Dewey talks about his liveProject Series.
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prerequisites
The liveProject is for people with basic familiarity with Python and programming, comparable to a single introductory course at the college level. To begin these liveProjects you will need to be familiar with the following:
TOOLS- Basic Python
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll develop a basic text-based spreadsheet program that will allow you to open a CSV file specified on the command line. By implementing this program, you’ll learn to
- 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
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Nested Lists project for free
Nested Lists project for free
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Nested Lists project for free
