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Python Challenge: Accumulate

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Lab description

In this challenge, you will put your knowledge of the Python programming language to the test by implementing the accumulate operation, which, given a collection and an operation to perform on each element of the collection, returns a new collection containing the result of applying that operation to each element of the input collection.

Given the collection of numbers:

  • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

And the operation:

  • square a number (x => x * x)

Your code should be able to produce the collection of squares:

  • 1, 4, 9, 16, 25

Check out the test suite to see the expected function signature.

Prerequisites
  • Knowledge of Python 3
Intended audience
  • Beginner Python developers
What will be assessed
  • Your ability to write Python code within a time-limited environment
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