<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Hi Dinko,<div><br></div><div>I'm back to my computer for the evening but will be gone again tomorrow and until Sunday.  I did take an XO and use Pippy to check things in some of the files you sent. I will do a separate one for each section. I might be able to check some of the others before I get back on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Caryl</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.1944px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.1944px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.1944px; ">Here are some <i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C00000">comments</font></i> and <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C00000">corrections</font>, shown in <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C00000">red</font>:</span></div><div><br></div><div>2.0 Variables:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Even if you can't guess what the result will be, you can run it and see that this will output (write) the number 3 to the screen - exactly the same as if you had written "print 15 / 5". However, this time we have stored the numbers 5 and 15 under the names "a" and "b". You can picture it as if we put those numbers in boxes, and wrote "a" and "b" on those boxes.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.1944px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C00000">Students may have learned this concept as it applies to math in some "pre-algebra" lessons they had in 5th or 6th grade... you may wish to draw a parallel.</font></i></span></div></div><div>*</div><div>*</div><div><div># example start</div><div>print "Sixth example:"</div><div>a = (3+9)/2 -(1 + 5)</div><div>print a</div><div># example end</div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C00000">Again, average to good students should be able to evaluate expressions like this by 6th or even 5th grade.</font></i></div></div><div><br></div><div>*</div><div>*</div><div><div> </div><div># example start</div><div>print "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C00000">Eighth</font> example:"</div><div>number = 5</div><div>number = number + 1</div><div>print number</div><div># example end</div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C00000">Typo: missing letter "h"</font></i> </div></div><div>*</div><div>*</div><div><div><div>    What do you think happens when you write an expression after "print" (examples 1, 2 and 3)? Just <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C00000">as </font>when assigning values to variables, the expression gets calculated to a value, and the value is printed.</div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C00000">Typo: missing word "as" could also use "like"</font></i></div></div></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C00000"><br></font></i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div> </body> </html>