Nested Structures
Explore nested data structures like dictionaries within dictionaries to organize complex information. Learn to build a weekly meal planner and study tracker that calculate daily and weekly totals, enhancing your Python skills through practical examples and AI-assisted coding.
The project
You’ve been tracking calories by day and meal type, but now you want to see the whole week’s nutrition in one system. Instead of running your tracker day by day, you need a planner that stores all 7 days of meals, calculates per-meal totals, and shows both daily summaries and a weekly summary.
Typing just:
Day 1 Breakfast: 400Day 1 Lunch: 600Day 1 Dinner: 300
It is useful, but it doesn’t give you a complete weekly overview. What you need is a nested structure, a way to combine lists and dictionaries so data is organized by day and meal category.
Build a Weekly Meal Planner that organizes meals by day (keys), meal type (sub-keys), and calories (lists). Then calculate per-meal totals, daily totals, and the final weekly total. ...