List by Course

Part of the Logic & Flow section of Coddy's Python journey — lesson 44 of 78.

Challenge

Easy

Create a function named list_students_by_course that takes one argument: course (string). The function should:

Iterate through the student_records dictionary and find all students enrolled in the specified course.
Return a list of names of students who are enrolled in the course.
If no students are enrolled in the course, return an empty list.

Add (replace) the following block of code at the bottom of your code:

add_student("Alice", 20, ["Math", "Physics"])
add_student("Bob", 22, ["Math", "Biology"])
add_student("Diana", 23, ["Chemistry", "Physics"])
print(list_students_by_course("Math"))  # Should return ["Alice", "Bob"]
print(list_students_by_course("Physics"))  # Should return ["Alice", "Diana"]
print(list_students_by_course("Biology"))  # Should return ["Bob"]
print(list_students_by_course("History"))  # Should return an empty list

Try it yourself

student_records = {}

def add_student(name, age, courses):
    if name in student_records:
        print(f"Student '{name}' already exists.")
        return
    student_records[name] = {"age": age, "grades": set(), "courses": set(courses)}
    print(f"Student '{name}' added successfully.")

def add_grade(name, grade):
    if name not in student_records:
        print(f"Student '{name}' not found.")
        return
    student_records[name]["grades"].add(grade)
    print(f"Grade {grade} added for student '{name}'.")

def is_enrolled(name, course):
    if name not in student_records:
        print(f"Student '{name}' not found.")
        return False
    return course in student_records[name]["courses"]

def calculate_average_grade(name):
    if name not in student_records:
        print(f"Student '{name}' not found.")
        return None
    grades = student_records[name]["grades"]
    if not grades:
        return 0
    return sum(grades) / len(grades)


add_student("Alice", 20, ["Math", "Physics"])
add_student("Bob", 22, ["Biology", "Chemistry"])
add_grade("Alice", 90)
add_grade("Alice", 85)
add_grade("Bob", 75)
print(calculate_average_grade("Alice"))  # Should return 87.5
print(calculate_average_grade("Bob"))  # Should return 75.0
print(calculate_average_grade("Charlie"))  # Non-existent student, should print message and return None
print(calculate_average_grade("Alice"))  # Should return 87.5 again