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― Jason R. Briggs, Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming

“Why is a giraffe like a sidewalk?”
― Jason R. Briggs, Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming

“myname) The name of this function is testfunc. It has a single parameter, myname, and its body is the block of code immediately following the line beginning with def (short for define). A parameter is a variable that”
― Jason R. Briggs, Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming

“It’s a way of saying to Python, “Yes, I know I have quotes inside my string, and I want you to ignore them until you see the end quote.”
― Jason R. Briggs, Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming

“The range function at can be used to create a list of numbers ranging from a starting number up to the number just before the ending number. That may sound a little confusing. Let’s combine the range function with the list function to see exactly how this works. The range function doesn’t actually create a list of numbers; it returns an iterator, which is a type of Python object specially designed to work with loops. However, if we combine range with list, we get a list of numbers.”
― Jason R. Briggs, Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming

“you really want to use single or double quotes to surround a string in Python, instead of three single quotes, you can add a backslash (\) before each quotation mark within the string. This is called escaping.”
― Jason R. Briggs, Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming

“it took 50.159196853637695 seconds”
― Jason R. Briggs, Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming