I am having a really hard time answering this question for a class that I am taking. In this problem, I have to write a program using a dictionary containing letters with points. So any word that is entered, I have to output the number of points. The program that I am using is Python.
These are the instructions:
Scrabble is a word game in which words are constructed from letter tiles, each letter tile containing a point value. The value of a word is the sum of each tile's points added to any points provided by the word's placement on the game board.*
Write a program using the given dictionary of letters and point values that takes a word as input and outputs the base total value of the word (before being put onto a board).*
EX:
if the input is PYTHON
the output is 14
This is what is already written for me:
tile_dict = { 'A': 1, 'B': 3, 'C': 3, 'D': 2, 'E': 1, 'F': 4, 'G': 2, 'H': 4, 'I': 1, 'J': 8,
'K': 5, 'L': 1, 'M': 3, 'N': 1, 'O': 1, 'P': 3, 'Q': 10, 'R': 1, 'S': 1, 'T': 1,
'U': 1, 'V': 4, 'W': 4, 'X': 8, 'Y': 4, 'Z': 10 }
So now, I just had to write a code that will output the score of any word that is input. I am not sure where to start...