1. Decision Structures, String Comparison, Nested Structures
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2. Warm Up Challenge
Recreate the overtime calculation program that asks the user for their hourly rate and how many hours they work and spits out their wages for the week
Really think about the process before working on the code
Challenge: try to accomplish this using only one “if” statement. You cannot use the “else” statement either, that doesn’t count!

3. The IF-ELSE Statement
Previously, we wrote “IF” statements to check for a condition, and our programs followed the order of the program according to whether the conditions held “True” or “False”
Now, we will add in another branch of execution based on the value of the Boolean expression

4. The IF-ELSE Statement
We can do this by adding the reserved word “else”
This tells the program to check for the “if” condition and if it is not satisfied, run the code branched under the “else” statement
You need to add a colon at the end of each else statement

5. The IF-ELSE Statement
Previously, we had to use two “if” statements like this:
if temperature < 32:
print(“It’s freezing outside”)
if temperature >= 32:
print(“It’s a normal day in October … ”)

6. The IF-ELSE Statement
Now, with the “else”, we can write our codes like this:
if temperature < 32:
print(“It’s freezing outside”)
else:
print(“It’s a normal day in October … ”)

7. The IF-ELSE Statement

8. The IF-ELSE Statement
hours = float(input(“how many hours did you work?”)) rate = float(input(“what’s your hourly rate?”)) if hours > 40: print(“Your total is”, (40*rate) + ( (hours - 40)*1.5*rate) ) else: print(“Your total is”, hours*rate)

9. String Comparison So far, we’ve been comparing data as numeric types
We can also compare strings
The way we do this is to convert all characters back to their basic data type, all one’s and zero’s using the ASCII/UNICODE table

10. ASCII Table

11. String Comparison
When comparing strings, Python will compare one letter at a time, in the order that they appear
Example:
“animal” < “banana” # True
Because the letter “a” in animal has a lower ASCII value than the letter “b” in banana, this Boolean expression holds True

12. String Comparison
“dog” > “cat” # is “dog” greater than “cat”? “fish” < “alligator” # is “fish” less than “alligator”? “elephant” == “tiger” # are “elephant” and “tiger” equal? “Mr. Seok” != “Donald # are these different strings?

13. Practice: Passwords
Write a program that asks the user to input a new password and store it in a variable
Then, ask the user to confirm the password they just typed
If they are exactly the same, then print out “Great! Password was saved!”
Otherwise, print out “Sorry, the two passwords did not match.”

14. Basic String Manipulation
Python has a huge list of string manipulation commands written in a package. We will take a look at many of them, but for now we’ll take a look at:
lower() # this changes all characters into lower case
upper() # this one changes into upper case

15. Basic String Manipulation
These two commands are not actually built into Python’s function library, therefore we need to refer to a separate module
We call this the “str” module
Examples:
string_lower = str.lower (“Hello, World!”) # hello, world!
string_upper = str.upper (“Hello, World!”) # HELLO, WORLD!

16. Basic String Manipulation
A module is a file containing functions defined in Python and other statements
string_lower = str.lower (“Hello, World!”)
The characters “ str. ” calls on a module entitled “str” that Python can access but is not directly built into the shell
The word “lower()” calls the function within that specific module

17. Practice: Passwords
Rewrite your password program so that it is not case sensitive
Such that, “password” and “PaSsWoRd” are considered valid entries

18. Practice: Alphabetizing Strings
Write a program that asks the user to input two names
Then print back these names in alphabetical order
Note: Keep in mind that lower case letters hold “greater” values than that of the capital letters

19. String Length
Python also has a function that counts the number of characters in a string
We call it the len() function and it returns an integer
Example:
count = len(“Donald”) # count will hold value 6

20. Practice: Compare Size of Strings
Write a program that asks the user for two names
Sort them in size order and print them out