Chapter 01
What Is a Program?
Find out what a program really is, then write and run your very first lines of Python.
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First Steps in Python: Build a Quiz Game
Start from your very first line of Python and finish with a Safari Trivia quiz game about Kenya's animals and counties. Variables, decisions, lists, loops and functions — learned by building something you can actually play, then challenging your family to beat it.
No experience at all
What you'll learn
- Write and run Python using variables, input() and print()
- Use lists, loops and if/elif/else to make decisions
- Write functions to organise your code
- Build a working quiz game with a score and lives
- Read errors, fix your own bugs, and present your game
- Choose what is safe to share in a game you publish
The course journey
What your child will explore
Follow the course from the first idea to the finished project.
- Chapter 02
Variables & Strings
Store names and numbers in variables, do quick maths and build a tip calculator that works out the bill.
- Chapter 03
input() & f-strings
Ask the user questions with input() and use f-strings to reply with neat, personalised messages.
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