1. Empowering students with the skills required to lead the way in hi-tech world.

2. Section 1 Introduction To Programming
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3. What is Computer Programming ?
Process of building and designing a set of instructions to tell computer what to do
Code is everywhere, in every gadget: bots, drones, cars, toys, your phone….
Code = Apps = Software = Games !!!!
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Why learn how to code ?
Coding is fun – Code your own apps and games!
Coding is a valuable job skill – There is always a need for smart problem solvers like you
Coding is a creative outlet – Create your own applications
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Why Python ?
Python is a fun, simple to learn yet very powerful high level language
Created by Guido van Rossum, named after Monty Python (a British band)
Top 10 most used programming language; Used at Google, IBM, Amazon, and in colleges
Tons of libraries/toolkits for gaming, networking, scientific and financial apps, AI and more!
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6. Section 1a Lets Get Started !!!
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IDLE
IDLE is Python’s Integrated Development and Learning Environment.
Once python is installed on your computer, you will see a program with name “IDLE” added to your applications/program folder.
IDLE can be used to interactively test some commands/single line statements in Python
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8. Section 1b Your First Program
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9. Write and save your first Program
Open IDLE
Open a new blank file: Go to File  New File
Write your piece of code in the file
Save the file: Go to File  Save
Run the Program: Go to Run  Run Module
You will see your python code execute on IDLE’s python shell
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My First Program
Open a new file
Name the file MyFirstProgram.py and save it.
Copy the following code
Save the file and run it
name = input("What is your name?\n")
print("Hello,", name)
Remember: Each color has a significant meaning
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Structure of a Program
This is called a comment
Comments are for users to understand the code. They are not executed by the computer.
Remember # is used to start a comment
# HelloName.py
name = input("What is your name?\n")
print("Hello, ", name)
input and print are keywords in Python
Every keyword has a specific meaning
print tells python to print something on the screen
input tells python to ask for user input
name is a variable in python
Variable stores information about data stored in computer memory
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Exercise 1
Task: 1
Download the file Exercise 1 from Weebly
Open the file in IDLE.
Run the file and see what it does.
Task: 2
Notice, how commands input, print work
Please complete the sections marked as TODO:
Save the file and run it in IDLE
Please do the code along with the students.
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13. Section 2 Variables and Strings
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Variables
Variables are something that you want computer to remember
They are used by the computer program to store data
They can store various types of data like numbers, strings, lists etc.
Name of the variable: a
Data stored in the variable: “Hello”
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15. Rules for Variable Names
A variable name must start with a letter or the underscore character
A variable name cannot start with a number
A variable name can only contain alpha-numeric characters and underscores (A-z, 0-9, and _ )
Variable names are case-sensitive (age, Age and AGE are three different variables)
Keywords can not be used as variable names
_12ada, Adada, A_234 are valid variable names
12asdada, are invalid
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Exercise
Identify whether the names in the table below can represent valid variable name or not. Verify your results by trying to create variables with these names in Python shell.
Name
Valid/Invalid
class
79ers
CalgaryStampeders
_unit
Tip_in_dollars
#LifeInParis
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String
Built-in datatype in Python (class ‘str’)
A sequence of characters (letters, numbers, symbols etc.)
Enclosed within double quotation marks (” ") or single quotation marks (’ ’)
Some examples of strings: 'hello', "hello"
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Exercise 2
Task: 1
Download the file Madlib from Weebly
Open the file in IDLE.
Run the file and see what it does.
Task: 2
Download the file Exercise 2
Please complete the sections marked as TODO:
Save the file and run it in IDLE
You made a new Madlibs Game…
Please do the code along with the students.
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That’s it for today
Thank You !!!!
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