1. The document discusses several programming tasks including defining functions to calculate statistics, a program to read and display lines from a text file, converting decimal numbers to binary, and other tasks involving text processing and lists.
2. Functions are defined to calculate the median, mode, and mean of a list of numbers. A program allows a user to enter numbers, displays statistics, and tests the functions.
3. Other programs and functions discussed include navigating and displaying lines from a text file, converting decimals to other number bases, finding unique words from a file, tracking word frequencies, converting lists to dictionaries, and removing duplicate sublists.