Lists and Randomness

This week we’re learning about lists and revisiting the random module, which we started using a couple weeks ago.

Readings

Lists

• Automate the Boring Stuff: Chapter 4 - Lists
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Lists
• Learn Python: Lists - practice.

Randomness

• Random Numbers in Python - this reading might look familiar. Does it make more sense this time around?
• Python random module

Summary

For the summary this week, think about what we’ve done in class already.

Summary prompt: Summarize your thoughts about lists, and about using randomness with lists. Focus on ways they would make what we’ve already done in class easier (or harder?).

Question

As per usual, your question can be one of three types:

• Confusion: what didn’t you understand in the readings?
• Curiousity: what do you want to know more about?
• Connection: how does this topic connect to your own experiences?

Submit your summary+question on D2L under Quizzes before the first class of the week.

Extra Practice

Some of you noted it would be helpful to have some extra space to practice on your own or in addition to what we do in course. I created a new page called Extra that has several exercises for you to try out. I will try to note which concepts are explored for each set of “extra” exercises.