A list is a commonly used sequence. Learn how to create lists in Python.
- [Instructor] When you're programming, … you might find yourself wanting to store a number … for you use later in your code. … Say that number is five. … You can store it by doing something like this. … I can create a variable named "n" … and give it a value of five. … So whenever I refer to n, … I have access to the number five. … I'm going to run this cell … and in the next cell I can print out n … and when I run this, five gets printed out. … Now, if you want to store multiple numbers together, … Python has a clever way of doing this … using something called a sequence. … A sequence allows you to store a collection of data. … One type of sequence is called a list. … A list has a specific order and the items in the list … can be changed whenever you want. … Square brackets are used to enclose the items in the list … and commas are used to separate the items from each other. … So you can create a list containing the numbers you have … and store the list in a variable. … If your numbers are five, 10, 15, and 20, …
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- What is Python?
- Strengths and benefits of Python
- Types of data
- Storing data using variables
- Built-in and custom functions
- Lists and tuples
- Conditional statements
- Iteration with loops
- Recursive functions
- Object-oriented programming
Skill Level Beginner
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Types of functions8m 51s
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Modules in Python6m 38s
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4. Fundamentals of Programming in Python: Sequences
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What is a sequence?1m 10s
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Lists in Python4m 39s
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Tuples in Python6m 28s
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5. Fundamentals of Programming in Python: Conditional Statements
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If statement3m 22s
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If-else statement3m 58s
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6. Fundamentals of Programming in Python: Iteration
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What is iteration?3m 24s
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For loop4m 35s
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While loop2m 37s
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7. Fundamentals of Programming in Python: Recursion
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Conclusion
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