CS 115 Reading: Week 7

List processing

By the end of Week 7, you should be comfortable with:

• Accessing individual elements of a string or list using indexing (e.g. names[1])
• Determining and using the length of a string or list
• Using the concatenation (+) and repetition (*) operators on strings or lists
• Writing a loop to access each character of a string or element of a list
• Adding elements to a list using append()

Suggested readings:

• Sections 5.3, 11.1, 11.2, and 11.3 of your textbook
• The CS Circles section on lists.
• The How to Think Like a Computer Scientist chapter on lists (stop at "The Return of L-Systems")
• The slides on lists that will be posted to Moodle by the end of the week