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Concatenation is something my students always find a little confusing at first. Concatenation is about joining different pieces of information into one print function. Example 1 To help us better understand this let’s look back at the example of how Python treats strings and integers differently. Do you remember the example below? If not run more »

  Input allows a user to add data to a variable for use later in the programme. This is great if you want to ask the user for anything such as their age or anything else! by default Python always assumes all input data is a string datatype. To change this wrap the input function within more »

For loops are used to repeat a section of code a particular number of times. Look at the example below and click on run: In the code above, Range refers to the numbers of times you wish for the code to repeat.   We can also use a for loop to iterate over something such more »

Reading Text from a File Everything we have done so far only adds text to a text file and closes the file. Nothing is displayed (printed) on our screens. Now we want to take information from a text file and display it on our screens. Notice how the code below on line 1 when opening more »

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