In the modify tasks, students adapt the example code to start to create code of their own.

Make sure that the students add comments to explain what the code does.

It is possible to output some consecutive items from a list by customising the print function to add a start and end index for the output.

There are a couple of traps to be careful of here.

The start value IS included in the output.

The end value IS NOT included in the output.

# Create and populate a list
countries = ["UK", "USA", "Chad", "Australia", "Thailand"]

# Outputs 'USA', 'Chad', 'Australia'

print(countries[1:4])

# Outputs from the beginning of the list to 'Chad'.

print(countries[:3])

# Outputs from 'USA' to the end of the list.

print(countries[1:])

• Square brackets for items in the list.
• Commas between each item in the list.
• String items are in quotation marks.
• Range – the end value is NOT included in the output.
• Search – not initialising counter OUTSIDE the loop.
• Search – not incrementing counter INSIDE the loop.