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Lab 2

Lists, Strings & Maps

A recap of Lecture 2 with hands-on notebooks, then your first step into running Python on your own machine.

1

Lists

  • →Index & slice
  • →append, edit, del
  • →sum() / len() → mean
  • →Practice notebook
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2

Strings

  • →Slice out codons
  • →Immutable sequences
  • →.upper() · .find() · .replace()
  • →Practice notebook
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3

Dictionaries

  • →Key → value lookup
  • →The codon table, made real
  • →Safe .get()
  • →Practice notebook
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4

Local Python & uv

  • →Why work locally?
  • →Installing uv & Python
  • →Run a real program (🐝)
  • →Off Colab, onto your machine
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