Overview of the lab

This lab is mostly to get you all comfortable with the Thonny text editor / IDE

Installing Thonny

• go to thonny.org
• hover over your OS
• use the installer that makes most sense
• follow the instructions it gives you
• ask for help if you have questions

Setting up Thonny

• select the "view" menu from the menu bar (very top)
• enable "program arguments" and "variables"

Installing PyTest

1. open the "tools" menu from the menu bar
2. click "Open system shell..."
3. type "pip3 install pytest" and hit enter
4. wait for it to finish
5. close the terminal if you would like!
6. ask questions if you want to learn more about the CLI!

Cut and Paste!

let's throw the following into Thonny, and walk through it!

								name = input("What is your name?")
								name_length = len(name)
								print("Hello", name)
								print("You have", name_length, "characters in your name.")
							

Run That Code!

let's run our code by pressing the green "play button" in the top left

check that out! just like we anticipated! our program asks us for our name and then returns the length!

Break things!

Now that we know how our program should run, lets intentionally break it so we can learn how to fix it

							name = input("What is your name?")
							name_length = len(name)
							print("Hello", name)
							print("You have", name_length, "characters in your name.")
						

Break things!

Now that we know how our program should run, lets intentionally break it so we can learn how to fix it

Run That Code!

let's run our code again by pressing the green "play button" in the top left

it seems like python didn't recognize what we were trying to do...

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maybe it's because python is case sensitive 🤔