print("Hello There!") # Welcome the user to the Basics page

Hello There!

Printing

Printing is how you can display text for your user to read

# This is how you print
print("Hello World!")

Hello World!

Comments

Comments are used to inform whoever is reading your code about what your code does. A comment is created by using a # followed by a space and a capital letter (unless the first word is an identifier). Comments don't appear in your outputted code, they are there for humans to read not computers

# This is a comment

At the start of any python file you create you should include a few comments about your program e.g.

# name_of_file.py
# Description of program

# Date created
# Your name/user name

When commenting there are 2 ways of doing it, in-line commenting or block commenting. A block comment usually applies to the block of code beneath it and should be indented accordingly. An in-comment is used to describe what a certain line of code is doing

# This is a block comment
print("Hello World!") # This is an in-line comment

When commenting your comments should be D.R.Y. or "Don't Repeat Yourself" In other words don't write out exactly what your code does. Here is an example of a W.E.T. (Wrote everything twice) comment

print("Hello There!") # Prints Hello There!

Variables

A variable is

var = "This is how you define a variable"

You can then use the variable in other parts of your code e.g. printing

print(var)

This is how you define a variable

Inputs

You can use an input to get user input into your program

input("This is an input ")

This is an input 

You can also use an input to set a variable

answer = input("What does 9 + 10 = ")

What does 9 + 10 = 

print(answer)

19

If statements

if answer == 19:
	print("Correct!")
else:
	print("Incorrect!")

Correct!

Lists

items = ["Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"]
print(items)

['Item 1', 'Item 2', 'Item 3']

Loops

In python there are 2 loops, a while loop and a for loop. Here are some examples

# Demonstrate a for loop
for i in range(5):
	print(i)

0
1
2
3
4

# Demonstrate a while loop
i = 0
while i < 5:
	print(i)
	i += 1

0
1
2
3
4