Module 6 - More Looping

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Before the week begins

Major Topics

Materials

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Module 6 - Staff Meeting

Lessons

Lesson 35- Lists and Strings

Summary: FOR Loops are not just useful for lists - they can also be used with Strings and other sequence types.

Learning Objectives:

• Iterate through a string
• Process a String with a FOR loop
• Differentiate between a list and a string

Activities:

• Lesson: Lists and Strings
• Quiz: Lists and Strings
• Programming: Lists and Strings

Misconceptions: None listed so far

Lesson 36- Lists and Indexes

Summary: Unlike other languages, Python is optimized to loop through values, not indexes. Indexes complicate the already complicated process of loops.

Learning Objectives:

• Iterate through a list by its indexes
• Explain why you should avoid iterating by indexes

Activities:

• Lesson: Lists and Indexes
• Quiz: Lists and Indexes

Misconceptions: None listed so far

Lesson 37- List Comprehensions

Summary: List comprehensions are a type of expression similar to a FOR loop, but are explicitly for creating new lists. They are very convenient shorthand for creating lists.

Learning Objectives:

• Create a list using a list comprehension
• Create a list using a list comprehension and filtering
• Identify the advantage of a list comprehension over other forms of list creation
• Identify the drawback of using a list comprehension over regular FOR loops.

Activities:

• Lesson: List Comprehensions
• Quiz: List Comprehensions
• Programming: List Comprehensions

Misconceptions: None listed so far

Lesson 38- While Loops

Summary: The WHILE loop repeatedly performs a body of actions until its condition is no longer true. In this way, they are very similar to an IF statement that loops back on itself.

Learning Objectives:

• Compare and contrast the For loop and While loop
• Define a While loop
• Determine if a situation requires a While loop
• Write code that involves condition based iteration
• Define control structure
• Identify control structures in code
• Describe the impact of various control structures on the sequence of a program.
• Nest control structures

Activities:

• Lesson: While Loops
• Quiz: While Loops
• Programming: While Loops

Misconceptions: None listed so far