soccer league coordinator project problems

So I have been playing around with this for a few days and I think I might be headed in the right direction. I created an array for each type, that way I can always classify the arrays together if needed by an index number. Not sure if that helps you out, but it might get you going, or thinking in a different direction. I still haven't completed it, stuck on a few loop issues, but I think I should have it by tomorrow, and will report back here if my plan worked.

Can you do two dictionaries and use a for loop to iterate through them when you require the values from both? I am somewhat new to Swift so I am not sure how else to have a dictionary with Int and Strings

I finished this one today and stuck with my plan. I imagine there are many methods to solve this one, but I made each attribute into an array, then used index numbers and loops to match the teams up. I'm not sure how one would solve this with dictionaries, though I imagine it can be done. Hope this helps.

Yeah Lonnie, sounds good.

Lonnie, which tech degree version are you doing? the $99/month or the higher rate? I only ask because I was doing the tracks for a little while, then when I saw they dropped it to $99/month, I had to jump on the tech degree. I asked the support and they mentioned they were doing the tech degree in tiers, and the lower end, the 99/month, didn't include the tutoring by an instructor and didn't allow for grading of the apps we build. I saw that their were only two tutoring sessions offered throughout the entire tech degree, so I figured it wasn't worth the extra few hundred dollars a month. I wanted to see if you were on the higher rated one, and if it offered any other features.

So, I took a couple days off and jumped back into it. I changed all the individual arrays I had to a single, league dictionary of arrays and performed logic on that. My question, why do they ask for "An array of dictionaries for each team" and "and array for each player" in the "What makes a good project tab"? I fell like all that is needed is an array for the teams, and I can't see why you need to have a dictionary for each individual player.

For instance, after my dictionary of arrays, I separated the experienced players and non experienced players. I used logic of incrementing an index number in a "while loop", and using an "if" statement, added experienced players to each team, then non experienced players as well, plus wrote a "print" statement to parents. I didn't need to explicitly write out a dictionary for each player or make a dictionary for the teams.

Let me know what you guys think.

My issue with this problem is the fact that they told us not to use anything we "haven't learned yet". We can only use the tools learned in Swift basics, Collections, Control Flow and Functions. They NEVER mention how to unwrap optionals so when I use an array of dictionaries, I can't pull any of the information out of the dictionary without unwrapping it. It will be an optional. If I unwrap it my project may not pass because I'm using things I "haven't learned yet. Like the Int to string method hasn't been taught up to this point, so technically your project would not pass.

Zachary Kaufman,

When you say " It is also the only place I can get graded for my projects since teachers don't grade the 199 dollar plan projects. " did you mean "since teachers don't grade the 99 dollar plan projects" ?

If I submit my project with a 99$ plan, I wan't know if my project is correct?

So did you guys end up solving this one? I am still stuck on trying to create a dictionary of different types