Author Archives: Jorge Padilla

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I made a very basic program in Python that prints a string and a number.

“Print” is the most basic functions in phyton and is used to show anything you want in the console. For using it, it has some rules that must be followed, for example,after print always goes a parenthesis(), inside can bet integers, strings, and also text but the text has to be inside quotation marks “” for example: 

I created a basic program in Python with “string” variables and made a simple example using them.

In phyton, numbers can be called integers or floats, the strings are everything else that is considered as a letter or a word and any operation can not be made with strings as it can with integers, to create strings you just have to enter str() , int() for integers and float() for floats, for example:

str(0)+str(6)       pyhton will print ——–>    06

int(2)+int(5)       python will print ——–>     6

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I made a Python program with a basic “while” loop.

For using loops in phyton, you have to apply the while function, for using it you have to place a condition and if that condition is True, this loop will end and the program is going to do the next action after the while,while loops, like the for loop, are used for repeating sections of code – but unlike a for loop, the while loop will not run n times, but until a defined condition is met. As the for loop in Python is so powerful, while is rarely used, except in cases where a user’s input is required its important to know that the condition of the while has to be the opposite you want for the loop end. for example if we want to end the loop when the variable is equal to 0 we use:while(variable!=0):, but this wont include the 0 on the program, so we use while(variable>0):. It is important to know that the code that is going to be in the loop has to be indented, this means with 4 spaces or a shift distance from the left than the while, like in the example below.

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I created a Python program with a basic “for” loop.

Loops can be created with while and for making loops with for, For loops are traditionally used when you have a piece of code which you want to repeat n number of times If you’ve done any programming before, there’s no doubt you’ve come across a for loop or an equivalent to it. In Python, they work a little differently. Basically, any object with an iterable method can be used in a for loop in Python. Even strings, despite not having an iterable method – but we’ll not get on to that here. Having an iterable method basically means that the data can be presented in list form, where there’s multiple values in an orderly fashion. You can define your own iterables by creating an object with next() and iter() methods. This means that you’ll rarely be dealing with raw numbers when it comes to for loops in Python – great for just about anyone!.

source: wiki.python.org

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To create a function you have to give your function a name after the word “def” and then, in parenthesis, specify the variable you’re going to work with within that function. After that, you want to write what you want the program to do in return whenever you call that function. For example:

def hello(x):

       return “Hey there ” + x

And there you go. You’ve created a new function!

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