# Print the first letter of the following string

school = "McHenry County College"

print school[0]



# print the length of the school string

print len (school)

# Use a while loop to print each character (including spaces) in the school variable
i = 0
while i < len (school):
    letter = school[i]
    print letter
    i = i + 1

# Slice school into three variables, print the variables

print school[0:7], school[8:14], school[15:22]

# use a while statement to search for the letter "e" in the contents of the school variable
index = 0
while index < len (school):
    if school[index] == str('e'):
        print index
    index = index +1


# print the index of every location with the letter "e"
# is this not the same problem as above?


# rembember, you should not use the same variable twice in the same program
# so if you used the variable index, use something else



# Write the code to count the number of times the letter y appears in the school variable
# print the total
counter = 0
for letter in school:
    if letter == 'y':
        counter = counter + 1
print counter


# create a variable named college and store the upper case version of the variable school in it
college = school.upper()

# check to see if Count is in the school variable
def checkupper():
    if 'Count' in school:
        print "True"
    else:
        print 'False'

checkupper()


# check to see if count is in the school variable

def checklower():
    if 'count' in school:
        print "True"
    else:
        print 'False'
checklower()