TECHNOLOGEPH

Have a group of students stand in a line, representing a list. Have other students take turns writing out list operations on the board, using students' names as items in the list. The students should then act out the list operations.

Write a function countItem, without using the .count() method, that takes as input a list, and an element el and returns the number of times el appears in the list.

Write a function that iterates over a given list of strings, returns a (new) list containing all the strings that are palindromes (read the same backward and forward).

Create a function that takes a list of numbers and sorts it in ascending order.

Bonus: Create a function that sorts in descending order