Reading assignment

Readings in the "Think Python 2e" book for CIS 40

Unit 9 - Containers and Lists
(divided into two sub-topics)

Lists

Chapter 8 Strings
8.4 String slices

Chapter 10 Lists
10.1 A list is a sequence
10.2 Lists are mutable
10.3 Traversing a list
10.4 List operations
10.5 List slices
10.6 List methods
10.8 Deleting elements
10.9 Lists and strings

Containers

The following provide a brief introduction to other containers mentioned in the class slides.

Chapter 11 Dictionaries
11.1 A dictionary is a mapping

Chapter 12 Tuples
12.1 Tuples are immutable

Chapter 19 The Goodies
19.5 Sets