Lists are very important and general structures in Mathematica. They allow you to treat collections of all kinds of objects as a single entity. There are many ways to ...
Complement[e_all, e_1, e_2, ...] gives the elements in e_all which are not in any of the e_i.
DateTicksFormat is an option for DateListPlot which specifies how date tick labels should be formatted.
Intersection[list_1, list_2, ...] gives a sorted list of the elements common to all the list_i.
MachineNumberQ[expr] returns True if expr is a machine-precision real or complex number, and returns False otherwise.
StatusArea[expr, string] displays string in the status area of the current notebook when the mouse pointer is in the region where expr appears.
StringLength["string"] gives the number of characters in a string.
ToCharacterCode["string"] gives a list of the integer codes corresponding to the characters in a string. ToCharacterCode["string", " encoding"] gives integer codes according ...
Making lists from functions. This makes a list of 5 elements, each of the form p[i]. Here is another way to produce the same list.
Functions to pick out pieces of polynomials. Here is an algebraic expression. This gives the coefficient of x in e.