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Python Projects for Kids

By : Jessica Ingrassellino
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Python Projects for Kids

By: Jessica Ingrassellino

Overview of this book

Kids are always the most fast-paced and enthusiastic learners, and are naturally willing to build stuff that looks like magic at the end (when it works!). Programming can be one such magic. Being able to write a program that works helps them feel they've really achieved something. Kids today are very tech-savvy and cannot wait to enter the fast-paced digital world. Because Python is one of the most popular languages and has a syntax that is quite simple to understand, even kids are eager to use it as a stepping stone to learning programming languages. This book will cover projects that are simple and fun, and teach kids how to write Python code that works. The book will teach the basics of Python programming, installation, and so on and then will move on to projects. A total of three projects, with each and every step explained carefully, without any assumption of previous experience.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Python Projects for Kids
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Lists


Lists have many different uses when coding, and many different operations can be performed on lists, thanks to Python. In this chapter, you will only learn about some of the many uses of lists.

Note

If you wish to learn more about lists, the Python documentation is very detailed and can be found at https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html?highlight=lists#more-on-lists.

First, some facts about Python lists: Python lists are mutable. This means that the data in a list can be changed around. Items can be added or removed using functions that act directly on the list. Also, the items in a list can be mixed together. Numbers, floats, and strings can all go together in the same list.

Parts of a list

Lists, like other kinds of data, are assigned to a variable. Then, the list items are placed in [ ]:

In your Python shell, type the following three lists, one on each line:

fruit = ['apple', 'banana', 'kiwi', 'dragonfruit']
years = [2012,  2013,  2014,  2015]
students_in_class = [30, ...