✨ Step 1: Talk to the User

Use input() to ask the user a question and store their answer.

Example:

name = input("What is your name? ")
print("Hello, " + name + "!")

Try it! What happens if you enter your name in CAPITALS? Or with spaces before and after?

✨ Step 2: All About Strings

A string is just a fancy word for text. Python gives you cool tools to change it:

.upper()  # Makes everything BIG
.lower()  # Makes everything small
.strip()  # Removes spaces at the start and end

Example:

text = "   Hello World!   "
print(text.upper())   # "   HELLO WORLD!   "
print(text.lower())   # "   hello world!   "
print(text.strip())   # "Hello World!"

Try This:

word = input("Type a word: ")
print("BIG word:", word.upper())
print("small word:", word.lower())
print("tidy word:", word.strip())

✨ Step 3: String Magic with f-strings

Python lets you mix text and variables using f-strings. They’re super useful!

Example:

name = "Leo"
age = 11
print(f"Hi {name}, you are {age} years old!")

Try This:

name = input("What's your name? ")
age = input("How old are you? ")
print(f"Nice to meet you, {name}! You're {age} years old.")

🚀 Let’s Build: A Friendly Greeting Program

Time to create a fun greeting program that uses everything you’ve learned!

print("Hello there! Let's get to know you.")

name = input("What is your name? ").strip()
age = input("How old are you? ").strip()

print("\n--- Greeting ---")
print(f"Hi {name.title()}! Wow, {age} is a great age!")

Challenge: Can you add a message that changes depending on the age?

if int(age) < 10:
    print("You're a young coder in training!")
elif int(age) < 16:
    print("Keep up the great work, future programmer!")
else:
    print("You're a coding superstar!")

🎉 Well Done!

You’ve learned how to chat with users and make text do what you want. Next time, we’ll dive into maths and logic!

Practice Tip: Try making a mini quiz that asks for the user’s name and answers, then gives feedback using string methods and f-strings.

You’re smashing it, coding champ! 🏆