You're given two classes, Bookshelf and Book.
Books have a few properties: a title, an author, and a year of publication. We set these when instantiating the book.
A Bookshelf only has one property: a books list. It's empty by default.
In your code, please manually create the following books, and add them to a bookshelf.
| Book Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai | 1948 |
| The Parallax View | Slavoj Žižek | 2006 |
| Fear Stalks the Land! | Thom Yorke | 2021 |
These are some of my favourite books, so you better make sure they're all correct.
Create a method in the Book class called get_data() to return the book's information. I really like APA, so format it like this:
Dazai, O. (1948). No Longer Human.
Now, loop through every book on the shelf and print out its data.
A quick hint for the last name first initial thing: we may want to split our name into two parts. This will let us pick out our first name and our last name and do what we need with them.
Time for some Bookshelf methods! I'm gonna need a few of 'em:
Pretty self explanitory, make a method called get_book_by_name() that takes a string name, and returns the Book with the same title! If it's not on the shelf, just return None.
This is a little trickier, make a method called get_book_by_author() that takes a string last_name (not first name), and returns the Book written by them! Don't worry, there's only one book per author (so far...). If there isn't a book written by them, don't worry, just return None.
You don't need a hint for this one, do you?
Maybe I want the first book on my shelf, can you get that for me?
I don't want the 0th book, I don't know what that is. I want the first thing! This can be a one line function by the way.
I've included a file called my_shelf.txt in this repo. In it is a bunch of books, their authors, and their publication dates. Read these and turn them into Books please. Oh, and put them on a Bookshelf. You shouldn't have to try/except these, but if you want to, be my guest. It ain't gonna be on the exam, so I don't care too much.
Also, you're gonna need to make some edits to some existing functions. Not all these authors have a last name, so you're just gonna have to use their first name without an initial.
Also, a few of those methods up there need to be edited. There are gonna be a few books that were written in the same year, or by the same author. Just return a list full of them. If there's only one book that matches the criteria, just return the one book in a list.
Now, I've included a lot of books. This is a real depiction of my shelf at home. Literally, I've read all* of these. Don't judge. Now, let's do some sorting.
I've got a lot of classics on my shelf. Dostoevsky, Camus, Orwell, Huxley, you name it, I've got it. Write me a method where I can specify a year, and it returns a list of books, all writen before or during that year.
There are a few authors I really like, and I own a couple books for each of them. Write a method that returns a list of the names of the authors that I have more than one book of. Full names, please.
I've got two copies of the same book on my shelf! One's really old, and one's a new version. Could you write a method to find what book I have two of, and remove the old version from my shelf?
Time for a new shelf. Could you take all the books written by an author with a last name between A and K and move them into the new shelf. You can delete them from the old shelf when you're done.
I've got to pack up these books and move them to a new apartment. Can you create a MovingBox class that stores its own list of books? Also, books are heavy, so make sure that when I add_book() to this box, that I don't have over 15 books. Make as many boxes as you need, and put 'em into a list for me. I'll unpack those later.