1. Introduction to Computer Science
Programming with Python

2. Loops & Iteration
Chapter 5 - Finding the Largest Value

3. Looping Through a Set

4. What is the Largest Number?
Imagine we have a list of 1 billion numbers, and our task is to find the largest number
How would you do this?

5. What is the Largest Number?
Imagine we have a list of 1 billion numbers, and our task is to find the largest number
How would you do this?
Since computers can perform repetitive tasks in an extremely fast manner, the optimal and most efficient way is to let the computer find the largest number
Write a program that loops through the list and find the largest number
for loop
Counter (in)
And simply, a list of numbers
Conditional statement to compare numbers

6. What is the Largest Number?
In this example, we will not use 1 billion numbers so we can debug the code quicker. But, next, we will try this on larger scale
Given list [9, 41, 12, 3, 74, 15]
Initialize a variable named “largest_so_far” and initialize it with -1, which indicates I have not seen any numbers so far
If the next number on the list is 9, and it is greater than -1, so, the largest so far is 9
However, we keep looping until the end of the list and whenever we find a greater number, we update the value of largest_so_far
Lets code! Happy coding!

7. Finding the Largest value

8. How about the smallest Value?
Tip, just a minor change

9. How about the smallest Value?
Tip, just a minor change