dict final challenge 1 of 4

Let's look at your code:

def most_classes(teachers):
  max_count = {}  # Create a dictionary named max_count
  for class_names in teachers:  # for each thing in teachers, call the thing class_names
    if len(class_names) > len(max_count):  # if class_names, which will be the key aka teacher's name is longer than the number of keys in the max_count dictionary
      max_count = class_names  # set the max_count dictionary to the teacher's name
    else:
      continue
  for teacher in max_count:  # for each letter in the teacher's name, which we'll call teacher
    return teacher  # return the letter

It's a good try but I bet you got lost somewhere along the way with all of those tries. Let's think it through in English instead of code:

1. Our function, most_classes is going to get a dictionary of stuff. The keys will be teachers' names and the values will be a list of their courses.
2. I should hold onto a highest count of classes so I can remember what the biggest set is so far.
3. Well, if I have that, I should probably hold a teacher name, too, to remember who had the biggest set.
4. Now I should go through all of the teachers in the dictionary, one name at a time.
5. I'll get the list of courses that belongs to that teacher by using the teacher name as the key in the dictionary.
6. If the length of that list is bigger than my high count, change the high count to the new length.
7. Also, if it's bigger, change the teacher name that I have recorded to the key that I'm on.
8. When that loop is all done, send back just the name of the teacher with the highest count.

Think you can take those 8 steps and turn them into code?

Finally figured it out Kenneth! Thanks a bunch for your help. Couldn't have done it without you.

I'll try again Kenneth. Thank you for your remark. I'll post the progress.

Kenneth Love

The bottom is what I came up with but idk how I got it right, and treehouse is letting me move on. It's returning the wrong answer I think.....am I correct? Sorry I am a noob at this stuff.

teachers = {'Jason Seifer': ['Ruby Foundations', 'Ruby on Rails Forms', 'Technology Foundations'], 'Kenneth Love': ['Python Basics', 'Python Collections']}

def most_classes(teachers): max_count = {}

if (teachers['Jason Seifer']) > (teachers['Kenneth Love']): max_count = {'Jason Seifer'} else: max_count = {'Kenneth Love'}

for teacher in max_count: return teacher