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Meet Python: From Blocks to Text

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  • 7 questions
  • 16 marks
  • about 25 minutes
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Question types: multiple choice, multi-part, true or false, fill the gap, matching.

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When you press Run in Python, one tool reads your code and carries it out. What does the Python interpreter do?

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Computing — Python: Your First Text Language, Lesson 1 of 6. Why programmers use text-based languages as well as blocks, what the Python interpreter is and how to run code, using print() with strings, quotes, brackets, case-sensitivity and comments, and reading and fixing a simple SyntaxError.

12 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Do Now — Retrieval
  2. Blocks vs Text — Why Switch?
  3. Hinge Check — Why Text?
  4. Your First Line of Python
  5. The Four Rules of print()
  6. Hinge Check — Spot the Working Line
  7. Main Activity — Introduce Yourself
  8. Debug It — Read the SyntaxError
  9. Check — Comments and Case
  10. Plenary — Back to Our Objectives
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