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Welcome to Introducing Lists. Let's list a couple of things.
Prerequisites
- Ensure you have taken the Python Basics course.
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Hi, I'm Craig and I'm a developer.
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In this course, we're going to discuss a
built-in Python data type known as a list.
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Now, lists are a powerful data structure
that allow you to group multiple values
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together in a single container.
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But before we get started,
let me list a couple of things
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just to make sure that you're
comfortable with your learning ability.
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Now first,
on our things to talk about list,
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I'd like to make sure that you've taken
the prerequisites for this course.
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I want to make sure that
we're on the same page and
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that you know what I'm talking about.
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Our next item that I'd like to remind
you about is that there are speed
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controls on the video.
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Feel free to slow me down or speed me up.
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And also, don't forget that you can pause
and rewind me whenever you need to.
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You're in complete control.
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Next item.
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There are teacher notes
attached to most videos.
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Make sure to check them out.
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Lots of great information
is tucked away in there.
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Our final item on our things
to talk about list is,
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there is a wonderful and
uber friendly community here on Treehouse.
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Ask questions and answer questions.
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I promise that you'll learn
a ton just hanging out there.
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Nothing helps solidify your
knowledge like answering a question.
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So we just ran through a handy list of
things that I wanted to talk to you about.
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We use lists all the times.
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There's grocery lists, to-do lists,
even lists of products on web pages.
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Python provides a very clear and
easy way to create lists.
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In this course, we'll learn how to create,
combine, manipulate, and
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use lists to our advantage.
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By the end of this course, we'll build
an interactive console application
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that will prompt the user
to build a grocery list.
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You can take this concept and build any
short of other list that you can think of.
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Sound fun?
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Let's get started.
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