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Array Iteration Lab

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In this lab, you'll create, manipulate, and iterate over arrays.

Playground Files

• There's something slightly different about this lab compared to other labs. It's asking that you open up the .playground file included with this repository. In particular, the ArrayIteration.playground file.

• When you open a playground file, it should look like this:

• You will be met with a numbered list of questions. These questions require answers! You will write your code below each question. Lets pretend that the first question here asked me to create a function called iLoveFood() which prints out the following statement, 'Food is great!'.

• Once you've gone through and answered all of the necessary questions within the playground file, you can now submit a pull request (Don't forget first to git add, git commit and git push your changes). There are no tests associated with the playground files.

• What exactly is a Playground file? A playground is an interactive Swift coding environment that evaluates each statement and displays results as updates are made, without the need to create project. Here's an example:

• Notice how in the right pane, the playground file is able to compile and run this code while I'm typing it in. That's awesome and makes it a really great tool to learn how to code. As you move forward in your "learning how to program" career, if you're ever challenged with a topic or want to brush up on some material, create your own playground by launching Xcode and just start writing some code!

Learning Objectives

• Create for-in loops
• Use enumerate() to get the index and element from the array
• Create Array variables and constants and know how to use them
• Know how to create an Array of Int's and String's
• Create functions that take in Array's as arguments
• Access elements of the Array using subscript syntax
• Change elements at a specific index using subscript syntax

Instructions

• Open up the playground file and answer the listed questions writing your code below each question.
• There are no tests associated with this playground file.
• Make sure render documentation is checked off which can be done in the Hide or show Utilities pane.
• Render Documentaiton should be checked by default, but you can check to see that it is here:

• This allows for the questions to look all pretty in larger font that disallows you to mistakenly change the questions when you just mean to be writing code. You can include Markdown within a playground file which is pretty cool, it allows us to format the file in a clean way that allows you to just focus on the code.

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