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Python Projects for Kids

You're reading from   Python Projects for Kids Unleash Python and take your small readers on an adventurous ride through the world of programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782175063
Length 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jessica Ingrassellino Jessica Ingrassellino
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Welcome! Let's Get Started 2. Variables, Functions, and Users FREE CHAPTER 3. Calculate This! 4. Making Decisions – Python Control Flows 5. Loops and Logic 6. Working with Data – Lists and Dictionaries 7. What's in Your Backpack? 8. pygame 9. Tiny Tennis 10. Keep Coding! A. Quick Task Answers Index

Loops

Loops are a kind of control flow, but they rerun the same block of code over and over again until something else tells the loop to stop repeating itself. This is a bit different from conditional statements since these only run the block of code once. The two kinds of loop are while and for. Both types of loop are really useful.

while

while is one kind of loop. When we make a while loop, the program repeats itself until a given block of code happens. When programming a while loop, we need to create some rules, or our program will run forever.

For example, we can make this rule: when the calculator is on, perform the following steps:

  1. Run the calculator.
  2. Prompt the user to keep calculating.
  3. When the user hits the else statement, turn the calculator off.

Let's go through each of the code changes step by step; you will need these changes in order to make the while loop work.

Global variables and the quit() function

We will create a global variable to use in our quit() function. Using the variable...

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