Learners will be able to:
  • Split some text into a list
  • Add / append each word to a list 
  • Sort the single words into alphabetcial order
In the lesson you will learn how to make a list, read text from a file.  This text will be stored into a list and then sorted alphabetically. The list is a most versatile datatype available in Python, data can be stored between square brackets. The good thing about a list is that items in a list do not have to be the same data type.  

Part 1: Append a basic list:
  1. Below is a simple list, run the program, what happens and why?
  2. Now add some text to the list using the code a_simple_list.append("hello")
  3. What happens?
  4. Can you add 10 words to the list?
Part 2: Reading Text from a file:
  1. The next part of the project is to code a simple program to open a text file and read all the contents, how very James Bond!
  2. Run the program below and when promoted enter the file name text
  3. Look at line 2, what does it do?
  4. Look at line 4 what does it do?
  5. Add you own text from the internet to text2, can you get the code to read that text file?
Part 3: Splitting the lines into words:
  1. Once the text has been read from the file it needs to be split into single words so it can be appended to the list and counted.
  2. Look at the for loop on line 7, complete the missing parts to print single words.
  3. Note the code .split() it splits each line into single words.
Part 4: Append the words to a list:
  1. On line 2 create a list called my_list
  2. On line 3 print the list, it should be empty
  3. What does line 15 do?
  4. What does line 16 do?
  5. On line 17 use the append code you learnt in Part 1 to add each word to the my_list
Part 5: Sort the list Alphabetically:
  1. Look at the program below, the last part is to sort the words into alphabetical order
  2. One line 19 use the code name of your list.sort() 
  3. Add code to line 20 to print out your final sorted list
  4. Why do some words like and, arc, are, appear halfway through the list?
  5. Now it is your turn, change the words in the text file and make your own hack