Exercise 4

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Exercise 4

Make an Array that stores 5 subject names – Maths, English, Computing, Art and Science

Use the built in function (print) that prints each subject name out from the array.

Create your own function to tell you how many objects the array contains and call this function successfully in the program 

Insert your code for this project using copy and paste from your programming environment. Annotate this code below using in-line programming comments

a) where you use an array to store data

b) where you call a function to return a value and

c) where you use a built-in function to return a value  

 1. Create the array (list) with 5 subject names

subjects = ["maths", "english", "computing", "art", "science"]

# 2. Define a custom function to count items in the array

def get_array_length(target_array):

    count = len(target_array)

    return count

# 3. Use the built-in print function to output each subject

# We use a 'for' loop to iterate through the array

for item in subjects:

    print(item)

# 4. Call the custom function and print the result

total_subjects = get_array_length(subjects)

print("\nThe array contains", total_subjects, "objects.")

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