Test Your Programming Skills - Beginner Level

Question

1) Choose your programming language of choice (C, Python, Java, C++)

2) Write a program that takes the following input

Bob 32 70000

Jane 12 14

Gina 54 1000

Kevin 22 45000

3) Processes each line of input as name, age and salary

4) Outputs the following

Jane is the youngest; 12 years old

Gina is the oldest; 54 years old

Jane makes the least; $12 a year

Bob makes the most; $70000 a year

Answer 1

# We use a regex to split lines along groups of spaces

import re

def process_string(input_str: str) -> None:

# Parse the data into lists of the form [name, age, income]

people = [re.split(r'\s+', line)

for line in input_str.split('\n')

]

# Find extrema

youngest = min(people, key=lambda x: int(x[1]))

oldest = max(people, key=lambda x: int(x[1]))

poorest = min(people, key=lambda x: int(x[2]))

richest = max(people, key=lambda x: int(x[2]))

# Print out the formatted response

print("{0[0]} is the youngest; {0[1]} years old".format(youngest))

print("{0[0]} is the oldest; {0[1]} years old".format(oldest))

print("{0[0]} makes the least; ${0[2]} a year".format(poorest))

print("{0[0]} makes the most; ${0[2]} a year".format(richest))