Python coding tasks

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Task 1 – Quiz score tracker

Difficulty: Easy Duration: ~20–25 minutes Concepts: Control structures, simple data types, functions

Scenario: Create a quiz score tracker that asks the user five yes/no questions and reports their total score.

Requirements:

• Use a while or for loop to cycle through five predefined questions.

• Accept 'yes' or 'no' answers only (with validation).

• Use a function ask_question(prompt, correct_answer) that returns True or False.

• At the end, print the number of correct answers.

Sample input/output:

Question 1: Is Python case-sensitive? (yes/no): yes  
Correct!

Question 2: Does 2+2 equal 5? (yes/no): no  
Correct!

You scored 2/2 correct.

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Task 2 – Movie ratings menu system

Difficulty: Moderate Duration: ~30–35 minutes Concepts: Control structures, structured data types (list of dictionaries), functions

Scenario: Design a menu-driven program that allows the user to:

1. Add a new movie and rating (1–5)

2. List all movies and ratings

3. Show the average rating

4. Exit

Requirements:

• Use a while loop to repeat the menu until the user chooses to exit.

• Store movies as a list of dictionaries: {"title": "Movie", "rating": 4}

• Include input validation for menu choices and ratings (must be an integer between 1 and 5).

• Use functions: add_movie(movies), list_movies(movies), average_rating(movies)

Extension idea: Save the list to a text file at exit.

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Task 3 – Simple transaction ledger

Difficulty: Advanced Duration: ~40–50 minutes Concepts: Control structures, file handling, functions, global/local variables, lists

Scenario: Build a simple transaction tracker for income and expenses.

Requirements:

• Allow the user to enter a transaction: description, amount (positive = income, negative = expense).

• Store all transactions in a list of tuples or dictionaries.

• Display current balance and recent transactions.

• Write all transactions to a file (ledger.txt) upon exiting the program.

• Read from ledger.txt at startup to load previous transactions.

Key functions:

• load_ledger(filename)

• add_transaction(ledger)

• display_summary(ledger)

• save_ledger(ledger, filename)

Sample file content (ledger.txt):

2025-07-31,Salary,+2500  
2025-07-31,Groceries,-120.50  

Extension idea: Implement a simple search by keyword in transaction descriptions.