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[WSG20] Programming Fundamentals Week 1

Abrita Chakravarty, Wolfram Research Inc.
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During week 1 of Daily Wolfram Study Group, May 2020, we will be looking at the following topics:

  • Day 1: Working with Data
  • Day 2: Building Interfaces
  • Day 3: Functional Programming
  • Day 4: Tips for Writing Fast Code

We will look at lecture videos from the Wolfram U archives and also work on simple coding examples and mini projects.

Feel free to post questions on the material we cover in these sessions here.
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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Daily Challenge (May 4): A challenge in the spirit of "May the fourth be with you".

Chart the production budget against the release date of the Star Wars movies (from the WL EntityClass "StarWarsFranchise"). Which movie had the lowest production budget?
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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rjehanathan
rjehanathan
Posted 10 months ago

"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" 8.5 million USD
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M al
M al
Posted 10 months ago

Please send the link of the study group to regster
POSTED BY: M al
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You can register for study groups at https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-u/special-event/study-groups/

For this week specifically: sign up here
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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Could you please post links to the quizzes mentioned in the session today. Thank you.
POSTED BY: Sviatoslav Archava
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@Sviatoslav Archava could you please email wolfram-u@wolfram.com and we will send the link to you.

POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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Hi Abrita,

Hope, I understood correctly the challenge.

My PieChart[]:

PieChart[EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"][
  EntityProperty["Movie", "ProductionBudget"]], 
 ChartLabels -> 
  Placed[EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"][
    EntityProperty["Movie", "ReleaseDate"]], "RadialCallout"]]

enter image description here

The movie with the lowest production budget:

In[2]:= data = EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"][{EntityProperty["Movie", "ProductionBudget"], EntityProperty["Movie", "ReleaseDate"]}]; Select[data, #[[1]] == Min[data[[All, 1]]] &][1]

Out[2]= {Quantity[8.5`6.*^6, "USDollars"], DateObject[{2008, 8, 15}, "Day", "Gregorian", 3.]}
POSTED BY: Valeriu Ungureanu
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Hi Valeriu, I had a DateListPlot in mind. But the fun of using the Wolfram Language is that there are so many ways of doing the same thing. And your chart highlights the information just as well. Thanks for sharing.
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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Sure, Abrita, with DateListPlot[] it's much more simpler:

DateListPlot[
 EntityClass["Movie", 
   "StarWarsFranchise"][{EntityProperty["Movie", "ReleaseDate"], 
   EntityProperty["Movie", "ProductionBudget"]}]]

enter image description here
POSTED BY: Valeriu Ungureanu
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Tingting Zhao
Tingting Zhao
Posted 10 months ago

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POSTED BY: Arturo Silva
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I wanted to upload my Notebook, but I can't because I have to log in to my Wolfram Cloud account. I am logged in another tab in my browser, but I don't know how to link that to this group, can you help me please?
POSTED BY: Arturo Silva
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In the meantime, here is my code:

a = EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"]["Name"];

y = EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"]["ProductionBudget"]

x = EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"]["ReleaseDate"]

BarChart[y, ChartLabels -> Placed[{x, a}, {Before, After}], BarOrigin -> Left, AxesLabel -> {"Date of release", "Production budget [USD]"}]
POSTED BY: Arturo Silva
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Perfectly ok to copy paste code snippets. Notebook not needed.
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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Stuart Reilly
Stuart Reilly
Posted 10 months ago

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POSTED BY: Regina Cervantes
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Hi Abrita, where can I access to the weekly quizzes and videos of the session? Can you give me any page link?
POSTED BY: Md Samiur Rahman Mir
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You should receive the links in the daily reminder email for the webinars. If you are not receiving those emails kindly write to wolfram-u@wolfram.com.
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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A DateListPlot with labels added in:

movies = EntityClass["Movie", 
"StarWarsFranchise"][{EntityProperty["Movie", "ReleaseDate"], 
EntityProperty["Movie", "ProductionBudget"], "Name"}] // Sort;
least = SortBy[movies, #[[2]] &, Min] // First;
DateListPlot[
Callout[#[[{1, 2}]], #[[3]], Automatic, #[[1]], 
LeaderSize -> {15, 125 \[Degree], -10}] & /@ movies, 
PlotMarkers -> Automatic, ImageSize -> Full, 
Epilog :> 
Text["Lowest Budget", {DateList@least[[1]], 
QuantityMagnitude@least[[2]] - 1.5 10^7}, Background -> Green], 
PlotRange -> {{{1958, 1, 1}, Today}, {-3 10^7, Automatic}}, 
FrameLabel -> {{"Production Budget", None}, {"Release Dates", None}},
PlotLabel -> Style["Star Wars Movie Franchise", "Subsubsection"]]

enter image description here
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Dave M
Dave M
Posted 10 months ago

An actual analysis or comparison of production costs should include the time value of money referenced to some date, otherwise the comparison is invalid... right?

Q: (I'm new to Wolfram curated datasets) Is there a document or notebook associated with each curated dataset that describes how the data was curated? And, like the "daily challenge" problem, how would we know if the money values are referenced to some year's dollars or are just the time value of money for the given date? Besides a document/notebook describing the curation process and source for datasets, it would be nice to have a separate document/notebook that describes the particulars of a given dataset (like how money values should be interpreted), etc.
POSTED BY: Dave M
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Good point.

So the the entities are part of the continuously updated Wolfram Knowledgebase also used in Wolfram|Alpha. Here are some of the data sources used for the knowledgebase: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/entity/Source.html

You'll find more information about each entity on its associated documentation page. For e.g. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/entity/Movie.html. The curated data can be a result of pulling in information from multiple sources and the specifics of the curation process are not usually included.

Meanwhile for the datasets on the Wolfram Data Repository you will find the "Source Metadata" at the bottom of each data resource that gives you more detailed information.
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Posted 10 months ago

Here is a class that can be used to get the inflation-adjusted values of production budget at a single valuation date so the resulting comparison is fair:

enter image description here

Now after extracting and massaging the data from this class it can be visualized and compared on a DateHistogram:

enter image description here

Here is a comparison using the value of the dollar, based on Today:

enter image description here

Here is a comparison using the value of the dollar at the time of the release of Mathematica:

enter image description here

My god, the dollar has lost 55% of its value in the past 31 years!
POSTED BY: Muhammad Ali
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Daily Challenge (May 5): Make an interactive version of the visualization from the previous day that allows your reader to explore the data--select and compare various features against each other. (Explore a bit yourself and select a few meaningful properties for the list of choices you'd like to offer your reader; don't include ALL the entity properties of the Movie entity).
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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A simple snippet to get you started:

Manipulate[
 ImageResize[movie["Image"], Medium], 
 {movie, EntityList[EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"]]}]
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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POSTED BY: Yuliia Maidannyk
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Colin Scully
Colin Scully
Posted 10 months ago

Looking at the coding on this page for the daily challenge from yesterday, many of these things are far more advanced than what was covered in the first lecture yesterday. I think these long pieces of code can bamboozle people, it certainly does for me.

I feel like we went from fairly basic concepts to the multiple lines of code very quickly. For me there needs to be a bit more of a smooth transition.
POSTED BY: Colin Scully
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Hi Colin, Yes - does seem like a lot of code. But this was also meant to be a fun challenge to encourage people to experiment. The simplest version of the solution would be what @Valeriu Ungureanu or @Regina Cervantes posted above:

DateListPlot[EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"]
  [{EntityProperty["Movie", "ReleaseDate"], 
   EntityProperty["Movie", "ProductionBudget"]}]]

For this week we are focusing on "Practical Programming" - things we feel many people would like to be able to use in day-to-day work - import data, visualize it, or build an interface to explore data. Maybe look at the code this week as a showcase of examples and then in the next three weeks we will pick up again with more fundamental aspects of programming in WL. Thanks.
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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Stuart Reilly
Stuart Reilly
Posted 10 months ago

POSTED BY: Stuart Reilly
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I can make a collage of the leading actors of each movie.

Here's the code for ten actors (based on Abrita's code):

Manipulate[ ImageCollage[PersonData[movie["Cast"][[Range[10]]], "Image"]],

{movie, EntityList[EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"]]} ]

That results in:

StarWars-Episode1
POSTED BY: Arturo Silva
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Tingting Zhao
Tingting Zhao
Posted 10 months ago

Bare Bones Star Wars Manipulation
POSTED BY: Tingting Zhao
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POSTED BY: Valeriu Ungureanu
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A desktop version of the previous post:

Manipulate[
 Column[{Row[{Column[{Style["Release Title:", color], 
       EntityList[EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"]][[
        releaseNumber]]}], "  ",
     Column[{Style["Director:", color], 
       EntityList[EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"]][[
          releaseNumber]][EntityProperty["Movie", "Director"]][[1]]}],
      "   ",
     Column[{Style["Producer:", color], 
       EntityList[EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"]][[
          releaseNumber]][EntityProperty["Movie", "Producers"]][[1]]}],
     "   ",
     Column[{Style["Production Budgent:", color], 
       EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"][
         EntityProperty["Movie", "ProductionBudget"]][[
        releaseNumber]]}]}],
   Style["Cast and Roles:", color], 
   Grid@Partition[
     Column /@ 
      Transpose[{Keys[
         EntityList[EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"]][[
           releaseNumber]][EntityProperty["Movie", "CastAndRoles"]]], 
        First /@ 
         Values[EntityList[
             EntityClass["Movie", "StarWarsFranchise"]][[
            releaseNumber]][
           EntityProperty["Movie", "CastAndRoles"]]]}], 4]}],
 {releaseNumber, Range@10, ControlType -> Setter}, {releaseNumber, 
  Range@10, Slider}, {color, Purple}]

enter image description here
POSTED BY: Valeriu Ungureanu
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[WSG20] Programming Fundamentals Week 1

Attachments:
Challenge.nb
POSTED BY: Yuliia Maidannyk
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Hi! Is it possible to watch the earlier lessons from this week? Thanks, Garfield
POSTED BY: Garfield Southall
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Yes, absolutely. We'll send all the relevant links (to the videos and the download locations for the notebooks) in a consolidated email at the end of the week to all the registered attendees.
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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Daily Challenge (Day 3): Give "Pig Latin" a shot https://challenges.wolfram.com/challenge/pig-latin
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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We didn't get to patterns on Thrusday. We'll look at them tomorrow and then get back to the challenge.
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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POSTED BY: Arturo Silva
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POSTED BY: Arturo Silva
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Hi Abrita,

To initiate the challenge, let's start with the following code:

PigLatin[text_String] := 
 Block[{vowels = {"a", "e", "i", "o", "u"}, consonants},
  consonants = Complement[Alphabet[], vowels];
  consonants = Join[consonants, ToUpperCase@consonants];
  StringReplace[text,
   {
    x__ /; 
      StringMatchQ[x, 
       Flatten[{consonants, ToUpperCase@vowels}] .. ~~ vowels ~~ 
        LetterCharacter ...] :> 
     StringTake[x, StringPosition[x, vowels][[1, 1]] ;; -1] <> 
      StringTake[x, StringPosition[x, vowels][[1, 1]] - 1] <> "ay",
    x__ /; 
      StringMatchQ[x, 
       Flatten@{consonants, ToUpperCase[Alphabet[]]} ~~ 
        LetterCharacter ...] :> x,
    x__ /; StringMatchQ[x, vowels ~~ LetterCharacter ...] :> x <> "way"
    }
   ]
  ]
POSTED BY: Valeriu Ungureanu
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Rohit Namjoshi
Rohit Namjoshi
Posted 10 months ago

Hi Abrita,

Using RegularExpression rather than StringPattern.

This converts a single word

pigWord[word_String] := Which[
  ! StringContainsQ[word, RegularExpression["[aeiou]"]],
  word,
  StringMatchQ[word, RegularExpression["^[aeiou].*"]],
  word <> "way",
  True,
  StringReplace[word, RegularExpression["^([^aeiou]+)(.+)"] -> "$2$1ay"]]

To work with the sentence example with punctuation from the challenges page, we have to preserve the punctuation by calling pigWord on the consecutive word characters.

pigLatin[string_String] := StringReplace[string, w : RegularExpression["\\w+"] :> pigWord[w]]

Test cases

pigTests =
  <|
   "Or" -> "Or",
   "owl" -> "owlway",
   "string" -> "ingstray",
   "Aura" -> "uraAay",
   "Ochre" -> "eOchray",
   "or" -> "orway",
   "Agree" -> "eeAgray",
   "agree" -> "agreeway",
   "If the word contains no lowercase vowels, nothing is changed." ->
    "If ethay ordway ontainscay onay owercaselay owelsvay, othingnay isway angedchay.",
   "moves that collection of consonants to the end of the word" ->
    "ovesmay atthay ollectioncay ofway onsonantscay otay ethay endway ofway ethay ordway"
   |>;

Run the test cases

pigTests // KeyValueMap[pigLatin[#1] == #2 &] // FreeQ[False]
(* True *)
POSTED BY: Rohit Namjoshi
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POSTED BY: Arturo Silva
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Aaron Moment
Aaron Moment
Posted 10 months ago

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I feel like we are wrapping layer after layer, forming a snowball of code that I hope doesn't melt. This is "brakety" and "wrappery" hence I get lost in the brackets and can't visualize what is happening underneath very well. Having said that I find all this valuable and instructive!
POSTED BY: Aaron Moment
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Rohit Namjoshi
Rohit Namjoshi
Posted 10 months ago

Hi Aaron,

Languages that use a Lisp-like syntax (Lisp, Scheme, Racket, Clojure, WL, ...) suffer from "bracket/parenthesis hell". I find it hard to understand deeply nested expressions. Good formatting and indenting helps, but you still have to comprehend it from "inside out".

In WL you can use Postfix (//), Composition (@*), RightComposition (/*) and operator forms of functions to write expressions in a left to right order that I find easier to understand..

Consider: "Which of the first 100 prime numbers have digits whose sum is also prime?" Here is one way to answer it using infix notation

Select[Table[Prime[n], {n, 100}], PrimeQ[Total[IntegerDigits[#]]] &]

I find this to be much easier to understand

Table[Prime[n], {n, 100}] // Select[IntegerDigits /* Total /* PrimeQ]

From left to right I read this as "From the first 100 primes select those whose digits when totaled is prime".

Experiment with both styles and see what works best for you.
POSTED BY: Rohit Namjoshi
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POSTED BY: Arturo Silva
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Stuart Reilly
Stuart Reilly
Posted 10 months ago
POSTED BY: Stuart Reilly
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Rohit Namjoshi
Rohit Namjoshi
Posted 10 months ago

Hi Stuart,

There are a few cases that your solution does not handle correctly. If you take pigTests from my solution above and run your code against those tests there are three failures.

pigTests // 
 KeyValueMap[
  If[(r = PigLatin[#1]) == #2, True, Print["Expected: ", #2, " Got:", r]; False] &]

Expected: eOchray Got:Ochre

Expected: eeAgray Got:Agree

Expected: If ethay ordway ontainscay onay owercaselay owelsvay, othingnay isway angedchay. Got:If ethay ordway ontainscay onay owercaselay owelsvay othingnay isway angedchay
POSTED BY: Rohit Namjoshi
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Thanks for the posts folks. We'll continue the discussion on the "Pig Latin" challenge here.

Follow the Wolfram Study Group discussions for "Programming Fundamentals Week 2" at https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/1970834
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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A very unproductive way of doing this challenge but I am not familiar with If statements in Wolfram

Attachments:
PigLatin.nb
POSTED BY: Yuliia Maidannyk
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Rohit Namjoshi
Rohit Namjoshi
Posted 10 months ago

Hi Yuliia,

Use pigTests from my answer above to test your solution.

pigTests // 
 KeyValueMap[If[(r = textpiglatin[#1]) == #2, True, Print["Expected: ", #2, " Got: ", r]; False] &]

Expected: If ethay ordway ontainscay onay owercaselay owelsvay, othingnay isway angedchay.

Got: If ethay ordway ontainscay onay owercaselay owels,vay othingnay isway anged.chay

It fails on the sentence with punctuation test.
POSTED BY: Rohit Namjoshi
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Thank you. I fixed the code to account for punctuation and cleaned everything up a bit.

Attachments:
PigLatin.nb
POSTED BY: Yuliia Maidannyk
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Thank you. I fixed the code to account for punctuation and cleaned everything up a bit.

Attachments:
PigLatin.nb
POSTED BY: Yuliia Maidannyk
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Updating Name
Updating Name
Posted 10 months ago

My final attempt at the PigLatin challenge. The code is much improved since my last submission. It passes all of the tests on the specification, including preserving punctuation + Rohit NamJoshi's Test procedure. I haven't tried to submit to the challenge web page, but will do so later. Any comments welcome: Having never really had a need to process strings before, I found this to be a difficult task...

PigLatin[text_String] := Module[{s = text},

  vlclst = {"a", "e", "i", "o", "u"};
  vuclst = {"A", "E", "I", "O", "U"};
  punclist = {".", ",", ";", ":", "!"};
  lst = StringExtract[s, All];

  StrngReorder[strRO_] :=
   StringInsert[
    StringTake[strRO, 1 - StringLength[strRO]],
    StringPart[strRO, 1],
    If[StringEndsQ[strRO, punclist], -2, -1]
    ];

  StrngStartConsonant[strSC_] :=
   StringFreeQ[
    StringPart[strSC, 1],
    vlclst,
    IgnoreCase -> True
    ];

  StrngAddWay[strAW_] :=
   StringInsert[strAW,
    "way",
    If[StringEndsQ[strAW, punclist], -2, -1]
    ];

  StrngAddAy[strAY_] :=
   StringInsert[
    NestWhile[StrngReorder[#] &, strAY, StrngStartConsonant[#] &],
    "ay",
    If[StringEndsQ[strAY, punclist], -2, -1]
    ];

  StrngMoveFirstVowel[strFV_] :=
   StringInsert[
    StringTake[strFV, 1 - StringLength[strFV]],
    StringTake[strFV, 1],
    If[StringEndsQ[str, punclist], -2, -1]
    ];

  StrngAddAy2[strAY2_] := Module
    [{str = strAY2},
    str = StrngMoveFirstVowel[strAY2];
    StrngAddAy[str]
    ];

  StrngRule2[str2_] := If[
    StringStartsQ[str2, vlclst],
    StrngAddWay[str2],
    str2];

  StrngRule3[str3_] := If[
    StrngStartConsonant[str3],
    StrngAddAy[str3],
    str3];

  StrngRule4[str4_] := If[
    StringStartsQ[str4, vuclst] && 
     StringContainsQ[StringTake[str4, {2, StringLength[str4]}], 
      vlclst],
    StrngAddAy2[str4],
    str4
    ];

  lst = StrngRule4 /@ StrngRule3 /@ StrngRule2 /@ lst;

  StringRiffle[lst]
  ]
POSTED BY: Updating Name
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Links to various resources shared during week 1:

Manipulate

Functional Programming

Working with Data

Tips for Coding in WL
POSTED BY: Abrita Chakravarty
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Can we download the notebooks in this series? If so where can we find the links too the notebooks?
POSTED BY: Charles Glover
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Can we download the notebooks in this series? If so where can we find the links too the notebooks?
POSTED BY: Charles Glover
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HI Charles, Links to notebook downloads have been shared with registered participants. If you haven't already, please feel free to sign up at https://wolfr.am/MRRR3lFC

Thanks
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