Sorting Exercises

1. Sort the numbers 1, 86, 345, 2, 9,0 into descending order.

2. Sort Tom. Dick, Harry, Joe, Fred, George into ASCII order.

3. Make a hash with names as keys and ages as values: Tom = 56, Dick = 14, Harry = 5, Joe = 22, Fred = 85, George = 14, and sort the people's names into order of their ages. Print out the name followed by the age, one set per line.

4. Add in Bob = 56 and Pete = 56, then sort by age first, then by name.

5. Add in another hash using the occupation of the same people: Tom = plumber, Dick = ditchdigger, Harry = doctor, Joe = bum, Fred = professor, George = idiot, Bob = photographer, Pete = unemployed, sorted by name, then by age.