Students who complete this unit will demonstrate that they can:

• Effectively create string literals
• Distinguish sequence types from other types
• Use square brackets to index into a string
• Use and recognize string concatenation
• Create and manipulate lists using square brackets
• Use the following list methods and functions:
  • append()
  • pop()
  • remove()
  • + for concatenation
  • len()
  • min()
  • max()
  • sum()
• Compare and contrast strings and lists
• Compare and contrast tuples and lists
• Create and manipulate dictionaries (add new entries, update values, remove entries)
• Compare and contrast dictionaries and lists
• Compare and contrast explicit and implicit type conversions
• Use the math module to perform calculations
• Be able to convert numbers between base 2 (binary) and base 10 (decimal)
• Explain how data is represented in a machine
• Explain how fixed-length number representations affect accuracy and precision.
• Compare representations of integers to floating point numbers
• Describe underflow, overflow, round off, and truncation errors in data representations.
• Explain the reasons for using alternative formats to represent numerical data.