Here you will find sample solutions for each of the three difficulty levels of the homework for Lesson 3: The Mechanics of the Python Language.
This task asks you to create a list of up to ten elements and then write a loop that prints them with a meaningful phrase.
students = ["Sarah", "John", "Lina", "Rebecca", "Muhammad", "Jenna"]
for name in students:
print("Welcome to the class", name)
This task asks you to put two arguments into a printing function, for example, like so:
def favorite_food(name, food):
print(name, "loves", food)
favorite_food("Sarah", "pizza")
favorite_food("John", "sushi")
favorite_food("Lina", "pasta")
Finally, this task asks you to exercise your searching skills to find some code that can identify the second item in a list. Here’s the simplest way to do it:
# Create a list
fruits = ["apple", "banana", "cherry", "kiwi", "elderberry"]
# Get the second item (remember Python starts counting from 0!)
print(fruits[1])
The explanation is that ‘fruits[1]’ is the input which we give the print statement. This tells Python to find the ‘fruits’list, and then find the second item in that list.
These three examples are potential solutions to the homework prompts for lesson 3. There are potentially other ways to write code that will work for these, so be sure that if you found a different way, that you look at each component of the code you found to understand exactly what it does.
Written by Estara Arrant, 2025-04-16
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0