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In these tasks you have to use the skills learned in the previous exercises to create a new program based on the requirements below.
Task Instructions – Popular Music?
Write a program that:
- Make a list that has the top 10 best selling artists of all time. (Do some research and find out who they are!)
- Asks the user to guess which artist could be in the list.
- Ignores case for the comparisons below.
- If the artist input is in the list, print out a suitable message.
- If the input is not in the list, print out a suitable message.
Extra Challenge
There are many different ways to solve this program.
- Code as many different programs as you can that achieve the same result.
- Which of your solutions would you choose?
- Which is most efficient?
Help! My code doesn’t work
Make sure that you check for the following things:
- 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.