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In this activity, I will give you a challenge which will make you practice everything you've seen until

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now.

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Variables.

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Functions.

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Scope.

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Conditions.

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Loops and lists.

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Here is what you have to do.

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You have to create a program that will go through a list of integer numbers, and will compute the maximum

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value inside the array.

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And then you print this max value.

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Okay.

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And some of you might know already that there is a function that does that in Python.

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So we don't need to write this code at all.

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But the goal is to practice on the concepts.

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Okay.

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That's why I give you this challenge.

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So I'm just going to start here to give you a few tips.

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And then you can practice.

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You will create a list for example number list like this is equal to.

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And let's put some values.

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Okay.

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So for example one and then five -612 and seven.

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Okay.

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So five values.

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Just choose any values you want.

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It doesn't really matter then to be able to compute the max value.

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We are going to actually create a variable named max value.

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And you can see if you just write Max, there is syntax highlighting here.

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So if you see this okay, if you want to create a variable and you see that the name turns purple like

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that or another color.

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Don't use that because it's probably a reserved keyword or a function.

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So for example here we use max value.

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We're just going to create a variable and we initialize it.

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So you could use zero to initialize it.

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But we're just going to initialize it to the first element.

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So number list zero we initialize it to the first element of the list.

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And then well then it's your turn to practice.

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That's the challenge.

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What you will have to do is well, you will have to go through all of the elements of the list and then

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find a way to keep the max value.

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Okay.

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When you find a max value, you keep it and at the end you print it, okay.

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And that's the first step.

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So you write the code to compute the max value.

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You print it.

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Then as a second step you can create a function just for that functionality.

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So then you can call the function from your main program okay.

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And I will see you in the next video for the solution.