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EECS110 Homework 1, Spring 2009 Due: 11:59pm on Sunday April 12, 2009 Submission: submit your solutions at the submissions server If you are working on lab problems, please go to: /~akuzma/classes/EECS110-s09/lab/lab1/lab1.htm You should do the first two problems for Lab1. Problems: Problem 1: Data (hw1pr1.py) [25 points; individual or pair] Week 1, Problem 1: Data! [25 points; individual or pair] Part 0: Logging in and running Python and IDLE An easy way to start Python and IDLE is by clicking on the IDLE icon in the dock at the bottom of the screen. Its the one with the stylized yellow and blue pythons on it. If you can’t find it, click the Windows start button shown below: and click on IDLE for Python. After that, open a new file and add a suitable comment at the top—for example: # Homework 1, Problem 1 (Lab) # 04/07/09 Save your file as hw1pr1.py - perhaps on the desktop (easy to find) or in a new folder (better organized). Part 1: working at the Python interpreter (or shell) Arithmetic with numbers, lists, strings, and booleans. To get started, try a few arithmetic, string, and list expressions in the Python interpreter, e.g., 40 + 242 40 ** 21600 40 % 20 hi there!hi there! ??(notice Pythons politeness!) who are you?who are you? ??(though sometimes its a bit touchy.) L = [0,1,2,3]?? You can label data (here, a list) with a name (here, the name L)(no response from Python) L[0,1,2,3]?? You can see the data (here, a list) referred to by a name (here, L) L[1:][1,2,3]?? You can slice lists (here, using the name L) L[::-1][3,2,1,0]?? You can reverse lists (or strings!) using skip-slicing with a -1 as the amount to skip.  [0,1,2,3][1:][1,2,3]?? You can slice lists using the raw list instead of the name (Not that this would be very useful, admittedly!) 100*L + [42]*100(a list with 500 elements that Im too lazy to type here) L = 42?? You can reassign the name L to another value, even of a different type- now, L names the intege