Writing Lines of Code

In this chapter, you will get your first experience writing actual code. Our hope is that you will see how easy it can be, but if it presents challenges, don't be discouraged.

The Print Statement

In Python, the command print tells the program to display words or numbers on the screen. Here is a line of code that tells Python to display the words 'Hello, kitties!'

python
Kopiera kod
print("Hello, kitties!")

print is a keyword -- that is, a word, that has special meaning for Python. It means, 'Display what is inside the parentheses'.

print is not capitalized. If you capitalize it, the program will not run.

Well, let's practice a little?