Lists and Randomness

Please read the following:

Strings

• Automate the Boring Stuff, Chapter 8: Strings.
• The print() function in Python – Stop reading at “Printing Custom Data Types”

Numbers in Python

• Integers and Floats – (video)
• Numbers in Python 3 – (video)

Lists

• Automate the Boring Stuff: Chapter 6: Lists
• Think Python: Chapter 10: Lists

Also, please read about using randomness:

Randomness

• How to Generate Random Numbers in Python – Don’t read section 3 Random Numbers in NumPy
• The Random Module

Read the readings. Doing this will help you begin to understand the concepts we will be working with this week. As you do the readings, I want you to specifically focus on what you might want to use lists for. What kinds of things have we already done in programming that you think would be easier if you had a list? Summarize your thoughts about lists, and specifically focus on ways they would make what we’ve already done easier (or harder?).

Then, write down a question. It can be a point of confusion or a needed clarification about anything in the readings, or it can be something interesting that you thought about while you were reading that goes beyond the reading. Or it can be an example you thought about, or a connection you made between the concepts here and other parts of your life. But write down a good question or example based on what you were thinking about while reading.

The summary + question for this week can be submitted on Canvas.