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Python

Paul Ehizuelen Jr.
Paul Ehizuelen Jr.
4,806 Points
Posted by Paul Ehizuelen Jr.
Paul Ehizuelen Jr.
4,806 Points

More of a consensus opinion question.

Is it considered "cheating" to look up another way of solving the code challenges using tools we are yet to be taught? And is there something to gained from restraining yourself to make a code challenge work using only the tools we've been taught?

Up until the dictionaries section, I had no problems solving things using the tools we had previously been taught/shown but on the word_count challenge I had to use google to find what I "needed".

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