Pt1420 Unit 3 Programming Assignment

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LEARNING JOURNAL UNIT 2
READING ASSIGNMENT
As I determined, at the first day, Thursday, I download and print all the reading assignment materials, what allow me to read the information all along the week, the time that I will take to finish my reading is circumstantial, depending on the amount of material was assigned; I read the chapter 2 of the book “Think Python, how to think like a computer scientist”. Through my reading I learned the concepts of values and types, which includes strings, integer and float numbers; how to assign statement creating new variables and gives them values; how to discover the type of a variable using the function ‘type’; what kind of name is acceptable to assign a variable name; the 30 keywords used in Python; the operators and operands; the order of the operators; how to construct expressions in the Python interpreter in the interactive mode also how to create my first script in the script mode.
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The unique point that I could not comprehend 100% was about the comments, which is very personal; I think that I will understand this point with practice.
WHAT I LEARNED
I learned important aspects through my activities;
1. New terminologies in programming.
Values, types, strings, float, variables, keywords, statements, operators and operands, expressions in python, script and interactive mode, comments, debugging, state diagram, floor division, evaluate, rules of precedence, and concatenate.

2. My first interaction with the computer.
I worked for two years assembling and fixing computers, but this interaction with computers through programming is more satisfying.
3. I can do that.
By creating my first program, I perceived that I can learn to