Lists

Students will...

1. be able to use the terms list and elements properly.
2. be able to create lists using the literal method:
   e.g., cheeses = ['cheddar', 'jarlsberg', 'Venezuelan beaver cheese']
3. be able to discuss sublists and nested lists.
4. understand the difference between creating a list and indexing into a list.
5. be able to write code using in and not in on lists.
6. understand using + with lists.
7. be able to use slicing to create a new list from an existing list.
8. discuss the implications of the fact that a list is mutable.
9. understand aliasing.
10. be able to use the methods append(), extend(), insert(), pop(), sort(), count().
11. be able to write code to do an index-based or item-based traversal of a list.
12. be able to use lists as parameters, return values, etc.
13. be able to use split() to split a string into a list of strings.
14. understand how a tuple differs from a list.
15. be able to write code to use multiple-assignment using a tuple.
16. be able to write code to return a tuple from a function, and capture those return values in a tuple of variables.