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This document serves as an introduction to Python programming, covering key concepts such as variables, arithmetic operators, strings, and user input. It outlines learning objectives and provides examples of variable usage, naming conventions, and basic arithmetic operations. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of Python as a high-level programming language for various tasks.

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This document serves as an introduction to Python programming, covering key concepts such as variables, arithmetic operators, strings, and user input. It outlines learning objectives and provides examples of variable usage, naming conventions, and basic arithmetic operations. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of Python as a high-level programming language for various tasks.

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Introduction to

Python
Programming
Learning Objectives
• Students shall be able to define
variables and their use in
programming.

• Students shall learn the use of


• Students
print function.
shall learn the use of
• arithmetic operators.
Students shall learn the use of
• strings.
Students shall learn how to get the
input from the user.
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First python program!
Let’s write our first python program.

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What if we want to take input from
user?
To take input from user we need a container
to store the value entered by the user.

This container is called a variable.

Everyone of us has used variables in


mathematics.
e.g. x=10 where ‘x’ is the variable and 10 is
the value which will be stored in ‘x’.

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How does a variable works in
computer?
Variable ‘x’ represents a memory cell in
RAM and the value ’10’ is stored in that
memory cell.

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Variable example

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Assignment statement in python

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Taking input from user
Lets modify the “Hello World” program
and replace the “World” with user’s
name.
To take input from the user we use
input method of python.

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Taking input from user (example)

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Naming variables in python
A variable can have a short name (like x
and y) or a more descriptive name (age,
carname, total_volume).

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Naming variables in python
Rules for Python variables:
1. A variable name must start with
a letter or the underscore
character
2. A variable name cannot start
with a number
3. A variable name can only contain
alphanumeric characters and
underscores (A-z, 0-9, and _ )

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Naming variables in python
Rules for Python variables:
4. Variable names are case-
sensitive (age, Age and AGE are three
different variables)

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Illegal variable names
2myvar = "John"
my-var = "John"
my var = "John"
All of the variables defined above are
illegal.

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Arithmetic operators in python

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Arithmetic operators examples
Addition:

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Activity
Try to use other arithmetic operations
given in the table.

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Mean calculation example
Mean: Program to calculate the
average of first five even numbers.

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Strings in python
Strings in python are surrounded by
either single quotation marks, or
double quotation marks.
'hello' is the same as "hello".

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Strings in python
You can display a string literal with
the print method:

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Assigning string to a variable in
python
Assigning a string to a variable is
done with the variable name
followed by an equal sign (=) and
the string:

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Multi-line strings in python
You can assign a multiline string to a
variable by using three quotes:

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Comments in python
Comments starts with a #, and
python will ignore them:

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Learning Objective

In this lecture, we learnt about


variables, assignment statements,
arithmetic operators, print function,
introduction to strings and getting
input from user.

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Conclusion
● We wrote our first python program.
● We learned about variables and their
use in programming
● To program computers to do
something, we use programming
language.
● Python is a high-level programming
language that is used to program
computer to perform different tasks.
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