At the beginning of this book, you started out by learning about your computer. You learned how to install Python and use different free tools such as text editors, the Python shell, and a terminal/command line to run your games. Also, you learned how to navigate to your desktop directory and save your work so that you could work through each project. The next steps included the following:
Navigating to other folders and directories on your computer
Learning more terminal/command prompt commands
We then started our coding journey by making functions and variables, and using different data types. We created some functions to do mathematics, and then we put those functions together to create a calculator. You learned how to get information from someone by giving them a prompt using the input()
command.
We used logic such as if
and else
to teach the computer how to make decisions based on what the user decided to do. We also used loops to help us perform different...