Outline for December 1, 2025

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Assignments: Homework 5/Project, due December 8, 2025

1. Write program to help solve Wordle
   1. Sketch out goals, inputs and outputs, and approach
   2. Implement it step-by-step

2. Step 1: read word list [wordle-1.py]

3. Step 2: eliminate words that are not exactly 5 characters long [wordle-2.py]

4. Step 3: read pattern, characters that must be in the word (“good letters”), characters that are not in the word (“bad letters”) [wordle-3.py]
   1. Step 3a: check no letters are both good and bad [wordle-3a.py]

5. Step 4: eliminate words containing bad letters [wordle-4.py]
   1. Step 4a: make all letters lower case [wordle-4a.py]

6. Step 5: Eliminate words with no good letters [wordle-5.py]

7. Step 6. Eliminate words that do not match a pattern [wordle-6.py]

8. Step 7. If word list named on command line, use it [wordle-7.py]

9. Step 8. Now clean up the code [wordle-8.py]
   1. Empty pattern causes error; check for it
   2. Check for invalid patterns *before* asking for other inputs
   3. Eliminate printing pattern, and good and bad letters

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MHI 289I, Programming in Health Informatics Version of December 2, 2025 at 10:28AM

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