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Shahzodbek Yuldoshov
622 Pointsi don`t understand the question of 2 exercise
what should i do in 2 exercise
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
# Your code here
for continent in continents:
print("* " + continent)
1 Answer
Brandon White
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 35,771 PointsHi Shahzodbek,
The second challenge asks that you print only the continents that start with the letter A.
You've done a great job coding the functionality that prints all the continents, so I imagine your issue is either with writing control structures (ie. if conditions) or it's with the logic behind explaining to python how to determine if a continent starts with the letter A.
For the first one, the if condition syntax is much like a for loop.
if True:
# do this
else:
# do this
For the second one, to determine if a string starts with a certain letter, you can just compare the first letter of that string to the one you're looking for (because a string is essentially a list of characters).
So this: name = "William" is essentially the same as this name = ["W", "i", "l", "l", "i", "a", "m"].
So if we wanted to check if the first letter of name starts with a "D" we could do something like:
print(name[0] == "D") # output: False
Hopefully, that makes sense and gets you on the right track. Good luck.