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100 Days of Code: Day 3

Jordan5224 — Thu, 05 May 2022 22:03:46 +0000

Today I covered conditional statements in Python.

For practice, I made a pizza ordering system. How it works is the user is asked 3 questions: What size pizza they want (small, medium or large), if they want pepperoni and finally, if they want extra cheese.

These 3 questions are stored in 3 variables with an input function.

I started by creating an additional variable named 'bill' and then writing the conditional statements:

bill = 0

if size == "S":
bill += 15
if add_pepperoni == "Y":
bill += 2

The above code was followed by 'else if' statements to trigger the other conditions if the first one wasn't true.

I created a separate if statement to determine if the price of extra cheese was going to be added to the bill:

if extra_cheese == "Y":
bill += 1
print(f"Your final bill is: ${bill}.")

Below is an example of the final result:

Welcome to Python Pizza Deliveries!
What size pizza do you want? S, M, or L M
Do you want pepperoni? Y or N Y
Do you want extra cheese? Y or N Y
Your final bill is: $24.

100 Days of Code: Day 2

Jordan5224 — Wed, 04 May 2022 19:30:20 +0000

On day 2 I wrote a program to calculate how many days, weeks and months someone would have left based on their age in years and assuming they lived to 90.

I started with a variable called age that prompts the user for their age.

Then I created 3 additional variables: age_in_days, age_in_weeks and age_in_months.

Each variable holds either the number 365 (days), 52 (weeks) or 12 (months). They then get multiplied by the age the user input as their current age.

Afterwards, I created another 3 variables that hold the following calculations:

remaining_days = 365 * 90 - age_in_days
remaining_weeks = 52 * 90 - age_in_weeks
remaining_months = 12 * 90 - age_in_months

Finally I used the following print function:

print(f"You have {remaining_days} days, {remaining_weeks} weeks, and {remaining_months} months left.")

Below is an example of what happens when this code runs:

What is your current age? 25
You have 23725 days, 3380 weeks, and 780 months left.

100 Days of Code: Day 1

Jordan5224 — Tue, 03 May 2022 23:14:04 +0000

On day 1 of my 100 days of code journey I learned how to use string manipulation, variables and the len, print and input function.

For example:

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

The above line of code prompts you to enter your name and then greets you with a hello, followed by your name.

print(len(input("What is your name? ")))

By using the len function (short for length) I was able to return the number of characters that you enter as your name. For example, entering "John" will print the number 4 to the console.

name = "Henry"
print(name)

The above line of code stores a string in a variable. By using the print function and referring to the variable name in the parentheses I was able to print the value that the variable was holding, to the console, i.e. "Henry".

Finally to finish off the day I created a band name generator. It works by asking you 2 simple questions. The city you grew up in and the name of your pet. It then combines these 2 values to give you a name for a music band, or any type of group.

Journey to 100 Days of Code

Jordan5224 — Tue, 03 May 2022 10:03:37 +0000

I recently started my coding journey by watching Angela Yu's 100 Days of Code Python Bootcamp course on Udemy.

I was hoping to have started making blog posts by now on what I have been learning already. But I was distracted by studying for my AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam (which I have now passed!)

My goal now, is to post everyday and document the things that I am learning on this coding journey.