Intro to Python — Lesson 2
In this session we cover:
Commenting your code
Casting integers, floats and strings
String indexes
Length of strings
Requesting user input
Changing the case of letters
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Previous Lesson: • Intro to Python — Lesson 1
Playlist for whole course: • Introduction to Python
Course Material: https://github.com/ihf-code/python
Questions:
Section A
1. Create two variables that hold the width and height of a rectangle, work out and store the area in a third variable. Print out the string: `Rectangle of width x and height y has an area of *area*`.
2. Write code that prints the length of the string, 'python'.
3. Print out the first and third letter of the word 'python'.
4. Ask the user to enter their name, and print out `Hello, *name*`.
5. Ask the user to enter their age, tell them how old they will be in 15 years time.
6. Combine the two input statements above and print out the message `Hello, name*, you are currently *age years old. In 15 years time you will be *age_in_15_years_time*`.
7. Ask the user to enter their hometown, print it out in uppercase letters.
8. Ask the user to enter their favourite colour and find out the length of the colour they input.
9. Ask the user to enter the weather and the month. Print out the string, `It is month and it is weather today`.
10. Ask the user to enter 5 different temperatures and the month. Work out the average temperature and print out the string, `It is month and the average temperature is average_temperature degrees celsius`.
11. Print out the above sentence but make the month upper case.
12. Create a variable that holds your favourite animals and print it out. Make sure the animals are all on different lines and tabbed.
13. Ask the user to enter their name as well as a number. Print out the uppercase character at that position in the string.
Answers:
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