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C# C# Collections Sets and Dictionaries Using Dictionaries

Posted by marcolamoon
marcolamoon
16,915 Points

don't understand the question! please help!!

the question.. " Create a method named WordsWithCountGreaterThan that takes an integer as a parameter. The method should return a dictionary of all of the words that have a count greater than the parameter passed in. The dictionary should contain the word and the word's count. " i keep the bummer error message. i'm not getting the question

LexicalAnalysis.cs 
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    public class LexicalAnalysis
    {
        public Dictionary<string, int> WordsWithCountGreaterThan(int i)

        public Dictionary<string, int> WordCount = new Dictionary<string, int>();

        public void AddWord(string word)
             foreach(var word in WordCount.Keys)
        {
            if (WordCount.ContainsKey(word))
            {
                WordCount[word]++;
            }
            else
            {
                WordCount.Add(word, 1);
            }
        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

It looks like you got a good start.

Your declaration has the right calling signature (argument, return type). So now you need a pair of braces for the body code to go in. Inside that, you'll create a new dictionary variable, and a loop that essentially copies the WordCount to the new dictionary, but it will skip entries that don't "have a count greater than the parameter passed in". Finally, you will return that new dictionary.

But also check that the code you created for AddWord is still the way it was when you passed task 1. Right now it looks like it may have been modified in a way that will cause the re-test to fail.