8.2 - Accessing List Elements
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Practice Questions
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What is the index of the first item in a list?
💡 Hint: Think about how counting starts.
Using the list colors = ["red", "green", "blue"], what does colors[1] return?
💡 Hint: What position is 'green' in?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does colors[0] return if colors = ["red", "green", "blue"]?
💡 Hint: Think about the starting point of counting.
True or false: Negative indexing allows access to list elements from the end.
💡 Hint: Recall what negative numbers indicate in indexing.
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Challenge Problems
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Create a list of your top 5 favorite fruits. Demonstrate accessing the first, middle, and last fruits using both regular and negative indexing.
💡 Hint: Remember, the middle item’s index will require some thought.
Given a list with a 0 to 9 range, refer to the last four elements using only negative indexing and print them out.
💡 Hint: How do you slice the negative indices to include all last four?
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