FAQ: Lists - Putting it Together

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lists. Putting it all together…Plzz notice me… just want to ask if in every exercise the only code that runs are the code that was asked in the instruction?? because i was trying to add code from previous step on the topic but i coudnt see changes in the right panel… plzz tell, my code is like this


comicStrip=['Codey sees the trail' , 'Codey starts the hike' , 'Codey is halfway' , 'Codey reaches the finish']

comicStrip.pop()

There are no print statements to display any output? So no surprise you see nothing in the right panel

what you mean po…? coz when i run this code it has an output in the right panel…
and what was that print statement u talk about po.

comicStrip=['Codey sees the trail' , 'Codey starts the hike' , 'Codey is halfway' , 'Codey reaches the finish']

but when i run this code it has an output on the right panel but it doesnt read the code that i have added. :frowning: i think i have a wrong code, plzz help


comicStrip.append('Codey meet new friend')

i don’t see po… withint my reply?

What do you expect to see in the output window and why?

That line will shorten the list but nothing is logged to the console. In this exercise we don’t want to destroy or mutate the list as much as poll one of the elements.

selection = comicStrip[3]
console.log(selection)

‘po’ is a word we filipino use to show respect to other people… Sorry for using it here,…
well i am expecting that in this exercise ‘Putting it all together’, i can use all what i have learn in the List topic, like adding a list, removing a list, through the code i write but it comes out that it seems the ‘computer’ didnt read my console coz it didnt show on the right panel the output i am expecting and i guess my code is correct.
i hope you understand po coz im not so good in explaining what i mean,

po?? sorry sir but can i ask more…? honestly i dont understand what you mean, can i have further explanation on that? Thank you in advance,

well, Do you mean sir that my code comicStrip.pop()
is correct only the panel cant show the output i expect??
plzz bear with me coz im a slow learner, :frowning:

displaying output requires logging it using console.log(), i don’t see you use console.log anywhere?

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Correct is not the word I would use unless two things can be counted upon…

  1. Given we are looking for the fourth element in the list, it would have to be the last one in order for .pop() to be able to extract it; and,
  2. the output is logged so we can see it on the display.

The other condition would be that it doesn’t matter what happens to the original list. .pop() mutates the list so anything that is popped from the list will no longer be in the original.

In this particular problem, given we are instructed to extract the fourth element of a list that we don’t know the length of (let’s say) then to most direct and non-presumptive approach would be to use the subscripted index, [3].

How to select the 4th item from the list and save it to some variable?

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That is literally what is explained in the lesson? Did you read the information on the left hand-side?

I saw few minutes later.
Thank you anyway

Where can I see the output?