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In this chapter, you learned how to work with container types, mainly lists. It is important to know how to fill these containers and how to access and manage their content. We saw that there is access by position or by keyword.

We will meet the important concept of slicing again in the next chapter on arrays. These are specially designed containers for mathematical operations.

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Claus Führer

Claus Führer is a professor of scientific computations at Lund University, Sweden. He has an extensive teaching record that includes intensive programming courses in numerical analysis and engineering mathematics across various levels in many different countries and teaching environments. Claus also develops numerical software in research collaboration with industry and received Lund University's Faculty of Engineering Best Teacher Award in 2016.
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