Your objective of this unit is to learn how to program in Python. You will need to know the basic programming skills to understand how to program the following:
- Basic interaction with the user and store temporary information:
- Input, Output and Variables
- To understand the different types of information:
- Strings, Integers, Floats
- Test and debug errors:
- Syntax errors and logical errors
- Program the computer to run based on decisions:
- IF, ELIF and Else statement
- Run loops in a program:
- WHILE and FOR loops
- Use advanced technique of using Arrays
What is programming?
Programming is writing computer code to create a program, to solve a problem. Programs are created to implement algorithms. Algorithms can be represented as pseudocode or a flowchart, and programming is the translation of these into a computer program.
To tell a computer to do something, a program must be written to tell it exactly what to do and how to do it. If an algorithm has been designed, the computer program will follow this algorithm, step-by-step, which will tell the computer exactly what it should do.
What is a programming language?
A programming language is an artificial language that a computer understands. The language is made up of series of statements that fit together to form instructions. These instructions tell a computer what to do.
Who uses Python?
Below are one of many organisations that use Python as their programming language.
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