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Lesson 2: Types of data, operations on data

Assignment 02

Learning Objectives

Concepts - After completing this lesson, students will be able to:

  • Distinguish between variables and function arguments
  • Identify functions that operate on or modify data
  • Compare and contrast common scalar and container data types
  • Recognize errors resulting from using functions on datatypes that do not have appropriate methods

Skills - After completing this lesson, students will be able to:

  • Use a plain text editor (VS Code) to modify source code
  • Execute functions on different types of arguments in the julia REPL
  • Use print statements and type introspection methods to investigate a data type
  • Assign, modify, and copy variables
  • Use github and github CI to check answers to homework

Assignments - This lesson is complete when students have:

  • Read Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 of Think Julia.
  • Cloned the Assignment 2 repository with github classroom.
  • Completed assignment 2 with all tests passing.
  • Run all code examples from Lesson 2 on their own computers