Week 8 · Python foundations

Lists, dictionaries and files: a student record manager

A program that forgets everything when you close it is not much use to a school. Today you learn to keep many records, give each value a name, and save them in a file — then you build the first real Chipy project: a record manager a teacher could actually use.

Software, data and AI90 minutesIntermediateLevel 1 module

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Store many values in a list and loop over them
Use a dictionary to keep named fields together for one record
Save records to a CSV file and load them again
Build a menu-driven program that adds, finds and reports students (Project 1)

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