Workshop

The workshop provides quiz questions to help you solidify your understanding of the material covered and exercises to give you experience in using what you've learned. Try and understand the quiz and exercise answers before you go on to tomorrow's lesson.

Quiz

1:Define the differences between lists and arrays.
A1: A list is simply a collection of scalar elements. An array is an ordered list indexed by position.
2:What do each of these variables refer to?
$foo
@foo
$foo[1]
A2: The answers are

$foo is a scalar variable

@foo is an array variable

$foo[1] is the second element in the array @foo

3:What's the result of this list:
@list = (1, (), (4, 3), $foo, ((), 10, 5 + 4), (), (''));
A3: The result of the list is: (1, 4, 3, $foo, 10, ...

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