Contents:

• Overview
• Practice Problems
• Problems to be Submitted
• Extra Credit

Topic: Conditional statements and list comprehensions
Related Reading: Chapter 08
Due: 10:00am, Wednesday 26 September 2018

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1. (10 points)

   Lists support a method to count the number of times that a specified value appears in a list. Show that you can compute such a count without relying upon that method. Specifically, assume that you have a list named collection and a target value. You are to write a code fragment that computes the number of times that value appears in the given collection.

2. (10 points)

   Assuming that words is a list of strings. Write a code fragment that computes a new list named palindromes that contains all words having length five or greater that are spelled the same backward and forward (e.g., 'kayak').