Practice Exercises

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Exercise 1: Medical Staff Profile

Create a program that:

  • Stores a healthcare worker’s basic information (name, age, department)
  • Calculates their year of birth
  • Creates a formatted introduction message
name = "Dr. Maria Santos"
age = 35
department = "Pediatrics"
current_year = 2025

birth_year = current_year - age
intro = f"Hi! I'm {name}, a {age}-year-old physician from the {department} department, born in {birth_year}."

print(intro)
Exercise 2: Medication Inventory Manager

Create a program that:

  • Create a program that:
  • Starts with a list of medications
  • Adds new medications to the list
  • Removes one discontinued medication
  • Prints the final list with numbering
med_inventory = ["Paracetamol", "Amoxicillin", "Ibuprofen", "Metformin", "Amlodipine"]
med_inventory.extend(["Cefalexin", "Losartan"])
med_inventory.remove("Ibuprofen")

print("Medication Inventory:")
for i, med in enumerate(med_inventory, 1):
    print(f"{i}. {med}")
Exercise 3: Grade Calculator

Create a program that:

  • Stores student information in a dictionary
  • Calculates the average grade
  • Determines letter grade based on average
  • Prints a formatted report
student = {
    "name": "Alice",
    "grades": [85, 92, 78, 96, 88]
}

average = sum(student["grades"]) / len(student["grades"])

if average >= 90:
    letter_grade = "A"
elif average >= 80:
    letter_grade = "B"
elif average >= 70:
    letter_grade = "C"
elif average >= 60:
    letter_grade = "D"
else:
    letter_grade = "F"

print(f"Student: {student['name']}")
print(f"Grades: {student['grades']}")
print(f"Average: {average:.1f}")
print(f"Letter Grade: {letter_grade}")
Exercise 4: Patient Vital Score Calculator

Create a program that:

  • Stores a patient’s recorded vital scores (e.g., from multiple checkups)
  • Calculates the average
  • Categorizes the patient’s overall condition
patient = {
    "name": "Juan Dela Cruz",
    "bp_scores": [120, 130, 125, 128, 118]
}

average = sum(patient["bp_scores"]) / len(patient["bp_scores"])

if average >= 140:
    condition = "Hypertensive"
elif average >= 120:
    condition = "Prehypertensive"
else:
    condition = "Normal"

print(f"Patient: {patient['name']}")
print(f"BP Readings: {patient['bp_scores']}")
print(f"Average BP: {average:.1f}")
print(f"Condition: {condition}")
Exercise 5: Health Record Access Validator

Create a function that validates a hospital staff’s password before they can access patient records:

  • At least 8 characters long
  • Contains at least one number
  • Contains at least one uppercase letter
def validate_password(password):
    if len(password) < 8:
        return False, "Password must be at least 8 characters long"

    has_number = any(char.isdigit() for char in password)
    has_upper = any(char.isupper() for char in password)

    if not has_number:
        return False, "Password must contain at least one number"

    if not has_upper:
        return False, "Password must contain at least one uppercase letter"

    return True, "Password is valid"

# Test the function
test_passwords = ["weak", "StrongPass1", "nodigits", "NONUMBERS"]
for pwd in test_passwords:
    is_valid, message = validate_password(pwd)
    print(f"'{pwd}': {message}")
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