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Variable names follow rules: describe what is inside, lower-case, underscores between words, no spaces, and never start with a number. Which of these is a VALID Python variable name?

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Computing — Python: Your First Text Language, Lesson 2 of 6. Creating variables with = and choosing good names, reading what the user types with input(), reusing stored values, joining strings with concatenation and simple f-strings, and printing variables.

12 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Do Now — Retrieval
  2. Variables — Named Boxes
  3. Hinge Check — Good Variable Names
  4. Asking the User a Question
  5. Two Ways to Print a Variable
  6. Hinge Check — Predict the Output
  7. Main Activity — Mad Libs Story Generator
  8. Debug It — The Missing Gap
  9. Check — How Variables and Input Work
  10. Plenary — Back to Our Objectives
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