From 7f8225acf6269500fa02664c4d28d8343fb7f23c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nishanth Amuluru
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:19:09 +0530
Subject: Finished sets
---
sets/quickref.tex | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
sets/script.rst | 12 +++++++-----
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
(limited to 'sets')
diff --git a/sets/quickref.tex b/sets/quickref.tex
index a0212b3..4e34e59 100644
--- a/sets/quickref.tex
+++ b/sets/quickref.tex
@@ -1,11 +1,23 @@
-Creating a tuple:\\
-{\ex \lstinline| t = (1, "hello", 2.5)|}
+Creating a set:\\
+{\ex \lstinline| p10 = set([2, 3, 5, 7]) |t}
-Accessing elements of tuples:\\
-{\ex \lstinline| t[index] Ex: t[2]|}
+Creating set from a tuple or list:\\
+{\ex \lstinline| s = set(var_name)|}
-Accessing slices of tuples:\\
-{\ex \lstinline| t[start:stop:step]|}
+Operations on sets. Ex: UNION:\\
+{\ex \lstinline| s1 \| s2 |}
-Swapping values:\\
-{\ex \lstinline| a, b = b, a|}
+Other operations available:\\
+
+\begin{lstlising}
+\item "\&" -- Intersection
+\item "-" -- Difference
+\item "\^" -- Symmetric Difference
+\item "<" -- Subset
+\end{lstlisting}
+
+Checking for containership:\\
+{\ex \lstinline| x in p10|}
+
+Finding the no.of elements:\\
+{\ex \lstinline| len(p10)|}
diff --git a/sets/script.rst b/sets/script.rst
index ffc2084..8f9c699 100644
--- a/sets/script.rst
+++ b/sets/script.rst
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
.. Objectives
.. ----------
-.. A - Students and teachers from Science and engineering backgrounds
- B - Will learn what are tuples and why they are needed
- Will learn the various methods of accessing elements in tuples
- C -
- D -
+.. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to
+
+.. * Create sets from lists
+.. * Perform union, intersection and symmetric difference operations
+.. * Check if a set is a subset of other
+.. * understand various similarities with lists like length and containership
+
.. Prerequisites
.. -------------
--
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