L1 Python - Input and Output

Question 1

What is Python?

Answer 1

• Python is a high-level programming language – that means programmers can write programs that look a lot like English making it much easier to work with
• Python is a very popular programming language and is used by thousands of companies including:
  
  • NASA
  • Google’s Search Engine
  • CERN Large Hadron Collider Research

Question 2

What is the PRIMM Model?

Answer 2

PREDICT – when you find a new piece of code PREDICT what you think it will do

RUN – RUN the code to see if your prediction was correct/ If not, why do you think that was?

INVESTIGATE – INVESTIGATE and experiment, with your code, change things and see what happens

MODIFY – Now you can MODIFY the code to make it behave in different ways

MAKE – A final challenge where you MAKE your own program that uses the ideas you have learned

Question 3

What is Thonny and what does it allow you to do?

Answer 3

• Thonny allows you to write, run and debug your program in one place.
• Thonny is free to download and install so can be used at home.

Question 4

Give an examples of input and output:

Answer 4

• name = input(“What is your name?”)
• print (“Hello’”+ name)
• colour = input (“what is your favourite colour?”)
• print (“Cool, I like “ + colour + “ too!”)

Question 5

What is concatenation and give examples:

Answer 5

• print(“Cool, I like ” + colour + “ too!”)
• Data enclosed in speech marks are strings – this means they are alphanumeric characters
• The plus + sign glues strings together – this is called concatenation
• We have to remember to put the spaces into the sentence around the variable this is useful if we want to add punctuation to the end of a sentence.
• print (“Hello ” + name + “!”)
• We can also use commas to put the spaces around variables for us.
• print(“Cool, I like ” , colour , “ too!”)
• name = input(‘What is your name?)
• green = a string,a sentence, or letters which will get printed out on the screen
• purple = functions e.g. print
• black = variables, in between the pluses or commas

Question 6

Give functions:

Answer 6

• .upper() = makes things upper case

- .title() = puts things in title format