title: Skipping every other element after the first
body: <p>I have the general idea of how to do this in Java, but I am learning Python and not sure how to do it. </p>
  
  <p>I need to implement a function that returns a list containing every other element of the list, starting with the first element.</p>
  
  <p>Thus far, I have and not sure how to do from here since I am just learning how for-loops in Python are different:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def altElement(a):
      b = []
      for i in a:
          b.append(a)
  
      print b
  </code></pre>