In the first chapter, you learned how to display the message `"Hello world!"` in Python. This message is known as a **string**. In Python, strings are used to store text, which can also include numbers.

To store text in Python, you need to surround it with **quotation marks** (either single or double). For instance, you can store the word `"Python"` in the `language` variable and then display it:

# Save string within variable
language = 'Python'
# Output string
print(language)

> **Note**
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> Quotation marks are mandatory. If you omit them, you'll get an error.

If you want to change an object into a string type, use the `str()` function.

Assign the course name `'Introduction to Python'` to the variable `course` and output it.

Python is an interpreted high-level general-purpose programming language. Unlike HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which are primarily used for web development, Python is versatile and can be used in various fields, including software development, data science, and back-end development. In this course, you'll explore the core aspects of Python, and by the end, you'll be crafting your own functions!

In this section, you'll dive into the basics of Python, familiarize yourself with your workspace, tackle simple math operations, and display your results.

Here, you'll learn how to store items like numbers and text in computer memory, recalling them by name. You'll also get a taste of text manipulation in Python.

Here, you'll delve into the boolean data type and discover its role in creating programs that respond to specific conditions.

Continuing with data types, this section will teach you how to group varied attributes within a single variable using lists, tuples, and the dictionaries.

In this part, you'll master the art of writing loops in Python – essential constructs for iterating over lists, tuples, dictionaries, and even future dataframes.

To wrap up our introductory course, you'll explore some built-in functions and then embark on creating your very own!

Which of these is a correct way to create a variable?

How do you store the text `"Hello"` in a variable named `greeting`?

Which of these variable names is valid in Python?

What is the correct way to output `"c<>definity"` in the console?

How can you convert the string `"123"` to an integer?

What will happen when the following code is executed?

Introduction to Python

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