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Practice Creating and Indexing Lists

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The Challenge

2:42 with Ken Alger

An overview of the challenge for list creation.

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    [MUSIC] 0:00
    Greetings and salutations, Ken here. 0:09
    In this python practice session, you'll get a chance to 0:12
    practice working with creating lists, and accessing them with index values. 0:14
    It helps to reinforce what you've learned already. 0:19
    If you find it to be too challenging, you might need to review some videos. 0:22
    I've put a few links in the teacher's notes for some resources. 0:27
    We'll be using the workspaces for this practice, so go ahead and 0:31
    open the attached work space. 0:34
    As we've learned, lists are a very common thing in programming, and 0:36
    in our daily lives. 0:40
    The 2018 FIFA World Cup recently wrapped, and 0:42
    it gave me an idea of a list of players on the soccer team. 0:45
    Really, it can be anything team though, right? 0:50
    Lacrosse, baseball, a development team, 0:52
    an operations team, they are all teams with lists of people. 0:55
    For this challenge though, we will use a soccer team as an example. 0:59
    I've started a file, team.py, that has some code comments for 1:04
    tasks that I'd like you to complete. 1:07
    I'd like you to read through them and 1:13
    complete each one to complete this challenge. 1:14
    Let's see the completed program in action. 1:17
    Give some space here. 1:20
    The program starts off asking if we would like to add players to the list. 1:26
    If we enter yes, we're then asked to enter a player's name. 1:31
    I'll add myself to the team. 1:34
    Yes, I want other players. 1:37
    We'll add Craig. 1:41
    And we need more, and we’ll add Alena. 1:45
    Soccer teams typically have more than three players, but 1:50
    we’re just having a friendly interoffice game of three on three, so I’ll enter no. 1:53
    We’re shown a team roster here with a number of players on the team, 2:00
    the player number and the player name. 2:03
    Next, we're asked to select the player number for our goalkeeper. 2:06
    Alena is always on top of things, and I"m sure she'll make an awesome keeper, so 2:11
    we'll enter a 3 for player 3. 2:15
    We get back a statement that the keeper for the game will be Alena. 2:17
    Nice, and that's it. 2:21
    If you get stuck along the way, check the teacher's notes for 2:24
    links to videos that cover the concepts needed to complete this session. 2:27
    If you're not able to fully complete the program, don't worry, when we get back 2:31
    together, I'll walk you through one approach I came up with in the next video. 2:35
    See you soon. 2:40

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