Outline for November 3, 2020

Reading: §8
Due: Homework 3, due November 13, 2020

1. Searching a list
   1. Example use: linear search [linsearch.py]

2. Lists as parameters: can change list elements in function and they are changed in caller [args2.py]

3. More on parameters: named arguments and variable number of arguments [args3.py]

4. Tuples
   1. Used to group data
   2. Like lists, but immutable

5. isinstance(obj,type) function
   1. type is bool, float, int, list, str, tuple

6. Refactoring code
   1. Compute the perimeter of a triangle [peri0.py]

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MHI 289I, Programming for Health Informatics Version of November 4, 2020 at 3:58PM

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