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Dictionaries: Be familiar with the concept of a dictionary. A collection of key-value pairs in which the value is accessed via the associated key. Be familiar with simple applications of dictionaries, for example information retrieval, and have experience of using a dictionary data structure in a programming language. Information retrieval: For example, the document 'The green, green grass grows' would be represented by the dictionary: {‘grass’: 1, ‘green’: 2, ‘grows’: 1, ‘the’: 1} ignoring letter case. 50

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Aqa A Level Computer ScienceFundamentals of data structures

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Dictionaries: Be familiar with the concept of a dictionary. A collection of key-value pairs in which the value is accessed via the associated key. Be familiar with simple applications of dictionaries, for example information retrieval, and have experience of using a dictionary data structure in a programming language. Information retrieval: For example, the document 'The green, green grass grows' would be represented by the dictionary: {‘grass’: 1, ‘green’: 2, ‘grows’: 1, ‘the’: 1} ignoring letter case. 50

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What is a dictionary data structure?

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A collection of key-value pairs in which a value is accessed using its associated key

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  • Dictionary: A collection of key-value pairs in which a value is accessed via its associated key.
  • Key-value pair: A pair consisting of an identifier, called the key, and the value associated with that key.

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Confusing a key with its value: "green" is the key and 2 is its associated value.

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