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iOS

Posted by Christian De Leon
Christian De Leon
11,304 Points

Swift Extra Credit.

Create an array of 10 songs where each song is a dictionary. The dictionary contains the following keys: title, artist and album.

How would you solve this? I am a bit confused.

4 Answers

Marie Mosley
Marie Mosley
14,248 Points
Marie Mosley
Marie Mosley
14,248 Points

I did it a little differently. Here's the first two from my array:

let songs = [
["title": "Starman", "artist": "David Bowie", "album": "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"],
["title": "Spellbound", "artist": "Siouxsie and the Banshees", "album":"Juju"]
]

Going a little further, I played around with this and found how to access things inside the dictionary. For example, writing this:

songs[1]["artist"]

will get you:

{Some "Siouxsie and the Banshees"}

Nicklas Lind
Nicklas Lind
3,619 Points
Nicklas Lind
Nicklas Lind
3,619 Points

Great answer, thank you :)

Srinivasan Senthil
Srinivasan Senthil
2,266 Points
Srinivasan Senthil
Srinivasan Senthil
2,266 Points

Excellent. This answer gave multiple practices for Arrays and Dictionaries. Thanks so much

Stephen McMillan
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Stephen McMillan
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Stephen McMillan
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Stephen McMillan
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Graduate 33,994 Points 
// Songs Dictionary
let firstSong = ["name" : "Rude", "artist" : "Magic", "album" : "Don't Kill the Magic"]
let secondSong  = ["name" : "Am I Wrong", "artist" : "Nico and Vinz", "album" : "The Magic Soup and the Bittersweet Faces"]

// Songs Array
var songsArray = [firstSong, secondSong]
Christian De Leon
Christian De Leon
11,304 Points

Oh man why didn't I think of that, that makes perfect sense now. Thanks

frederickparas
frederickparas
553 Points
frederickparas
frederickparas
553 Points

Something related to this. Where do we put the answer to the extra credit ? When I click on that portion for extra credit, it seems to be grayed out.

Christian De Leon
Christian De Leon
11,304 Points

Its just something you do on your own and see if it works. You don't submit it anywhere.

Sally Firby
Sally Firby
5,263 Points
Sally Firby
Sally Firby
5,263 Points

might of misunderstood the question but here's my answer ( only did 5) var songs: [String] = ["bat out of hell", "Knockin on Heaven's Door", "Number of the Beast", "Over the Rainbow", "Thriller" ]

var songDictionary = [songs[0]: "Meat Loaf, Bat Out Of Hell", songs[1]: "Guns and Roses, Use your Illusion 2", songs[2]: "Iron Maiden, Killers", songs[3]: "Eva Cassidy, Songbird", songs[4]: "Michael Jackson, Thriller"]

songDictionary[songs[2]]