Input pauses the program until a person types, and keeps what they type.
Input puts a question on the screen and pauses the program until a person types.
When the person presses Enter, Python carries on and the answer goes into a box, called a variable.
Input only keeps the answer. To show it, you still need print.
Whatever a person types arrives as text, even digits. A command called int turns text into a whole number.
These are some of the questions on the sets. The printable sheets have more and an answer key.
A number. Int turns the typed text into a whole number.
The text 9. Whatever is typed arrives as text, even digits.
It waits for the person to type and press Enter. Input pauses the program until a person types.
print. Input only keeps the answer, and print shows it.
13. 12 + 1 = 13 once int has made it a number.
With a grown-up, play ask and wait. You ask a question out loud and then stay completely still, like a paused program. They answer. You write the answer on a card, which is the box, and read it back in a full sentence, like: hi, pizza!
Play the Mission together: you ask a question out loud and stay completely still, like a paused program, then write the answer on a card (the box) and read it back in a sentence.
