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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Python does have an array type which is similar to what other languages define as an array. It limits the array to a specific type. It may be useable, especially
to contrast with a ‘list’ in python to help students understand the pythonic way of doing things!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/array.html">https://docs.python.org/2/library/array.html</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">You can use it like the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">>>>from array import array<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">>>>a = array(‘I’,[1,2,3,4])<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">>>>a.append(‘a’)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">TypeError: an integer is required (got type str)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The ‘I’ is the typecode which forces the array to be restricted to the type this typecode represents (int’s in this case). It might be useful if you are using
python and need to explain/demo arrays.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Croke, Daryl D<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 7 March 2016 12:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <sofdev@edulists.com.au><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Should I teach lists?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Python doesn't do arrays as such, but you can make list within list and make them function like an array, so surely that's the point. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">see:
<a href="http://www.i-programmer.info/programming/python/3942-arrays-in-python.html" target="_blank">
http://www.i-programmer.info/programming/python/3942-arrays-in-python.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">What are we trying to achieve? What code do we require to achieve that? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Even though we can have mixed data type lists in Python it would be best to avoid that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Cheers<br>
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Daryl Croke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">keep on coding</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au] on behalf of Laurie Savage [08327998@pvgc.vic.edu.au]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 7 March 2016 11:30 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I'm no expert here so I'm very happy to be corrected but this poses a problem with PHP and Python where arrays and lists are interchangeable. In PHP and Python arrays can contain elements of different types: e.g.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">$fred = array("Fred", "Smith", 40, 78.50) so $fred[2] + $fred[3] = 118.5 but $fred[0] + $fred[1] should throw an error in PHP, not in Python.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">$fred = array("FName"=>"Fred", SName"=>"Smith", "Age"=>40, "Weight"=> 78.5)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I seem to remember having this discussion with Kevork back in 2010!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Laurie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">On 7 Mar 2016, at 11:09 AM, Chris Bucknell <<a href="mailto:Chris.Bucknell@haileybury.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">Chris.Bucknell@haileybury.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Like Damien I don’t encourage my students to use List and Dictionaries because in they tend to confuse them and arrays when it comes to exams. So I find it simpler
to avoid them and get the students to understand what’s on the study design and what they’ll be assessed on.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Cheers </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954F72">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954F72">mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On
Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>ATKINSON-BUCK, Damien<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, 7 March 2016 10:38 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Should I teach lists?</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Personally steer away from Lists and Dictionaries, even though they’re technically easier to use (and in at least the case of dictionaries, sometimes
faster) purely because I don’t want to add any extra confusion for the students. When it comes to exams, they are likely to be asked questions about arrays. If they put in an example in list format, an exam assessor may not get that and give them zero…. Especially
if you look at RemoveAt() and other list shortcuts.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">That’s just my overly cautious approach, quite possibly I’m underselling the students ability to discriminate the best time to use it.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Cheers</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Damien</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[Year 12 SofDev] Should I teach lists?</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I’m contemplating whether on not I should teach my students about Lists in C# and VB as they will be of more use to them then Arrays when doing their SAT (List
are dynamic and have more functionality). I just wanted to know what peoples thoughts are on this and if they go beyond the data collections mentioned in the study design. The SD just mentions Arrays and Records.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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