Chapter 10 Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, students will be able to:

• Explain what is a list in Python
• Know how to access elements of a list using the [] index operator
• Use the len function to determine the length of a list
• Use Boolean operators in and not in to determine list membership
• Write code to slice a list
• Explain how to delete items from a list
• Explain what it means for a list to be mutable
• Explain how to concatenate a list
• Explain how to repeat a list
• Explain how references work
• Explain what aliasing is
• Explain how to clone a list
• Name some of the list methods
• Explain what it means to append an item to a list
• Write a program that traverses through a list using iteration
• Explain how lists are sent as arguments (passing by reference vs passing by value)
• Explain what a pure function is
• Implement a function that produces a list of items (using the accumulator style)
• Explain what list comprehension is
• Create an example of how to access an element from nested lists
• Explain how the string methods split and join work