Get Friendly with Lists

Lists are the natural data structure to use when you have a stream of values to handle. You’ll use them to parse data, handle collections of values, and record the results of a series of function calls. It’s worth spending a while getting comfortable with them.

Next we’ll look at the various dictionary types, including maps. These let us organize data into collections of key/value pairs.

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