🗣️ The Magic Words

• The print() command: making the computer talk.
• Strings: words in code need quote marks "like this".
• Variables: labeled boxes where we store information.
• The input() command: asking the user a question and storing their answer.
• Concatenation (or f-strings): gluing variables and strings together.

Don't run it yet! Read the two lines of code. If you type Sam when it asks your name, exactly what will appear on the screen? Write your guess down first — getting it wrong is the interesting bit.

Load the starter code and press Run. Did it do what you expected? Where it didn't, that's the interesting bit.

1. Which line makes the computer stop and wait for you to type? How can you tell?
2. After line 1 has run, what is inside the box called name — the question, or your answer?
3. Try print("name") and then print(name). Why are they different?
4. What is the + doing on line 2? What is it gluing together?
5. What do you think breaks if you swap line 1 and line 2? Predict first, then try it.

1. Change the greeting so it says goodbye instead of hello.
2. Add a second question that asks for a favourite colour, then use that answer in a new print().
3. Break it on purpose: delete the quote marks around "Hello, " and run it. Read the error out loud, then put them back.

Build a program that asks the user for a series of words, and then outputs a funny, customized story.

1. Write input() statements asking for a noun, an adjective, a verb, a place, etc.
2. Save each answer into its own variable (e.g. user_noun = input(...)).
3. Write a multi-line story using print() that weaves those variables into the text.

Bonus: Trade stories with a partner and see whose Mad Lib gets the biggest laugh.

What was trickier: getting the input() right, or making the story actually funny?