Development Type
Weeemake Education Series
Python Learning Kit
Knowledge Point - Data Types
• A data type is a category for values, and every value belongs to exactly one data type. Data types
generally refer to Data Element, is a data unit that describes its definition, identification, representation,
and allowed value with a set of properties. In a certain context, it is usually used to build a semantic
correct, independent and unambiguous specific conceptual semantic information unit. The data
element can be understood as the basic unit of the data. Make a certain order of the data elements is a
data model.
Sequence type data can add
same type data, or multiple with
(repeat) integer, or be divided.
Access to values through keys. Keys
can be integer, tuple, string, but
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Knowledge Point - Data Types
Type Variable Name Value Assignment
Name Name David Name=’David’
Age Age 13 Age=13
Gender Gender male Gender=True
Weight Weight 1.9m Weight=1.9m
Hight Hight 85 Hight=85
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Knowledge Point - Data Types
Variable Type Instruction
Name=’David’ String str A string of text value that should be quoted.
Age=13 Integer int Whole numbers such as 0/1/2/3/-10/10
Gender=True Boolean bool the Boolean data type has only two values: True
(1) and False (0).
Weight=1.9m Float float Numbers with a decimal point, such as 3.14，
2.343
• In programming, Python can automatically derive the data type in the variable according to the value on
the right of ‘=’ equal sign.
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Knowledge Point - Operators Addition ‘+’
• ‘+’ is the addition operator when it operates on two integers or floating-point values. We can use ‘+’ with
numberic values to perform common mathematical operations:
a=10 #assign a integer variable
b=20
c=a+b
print(c) • Notice: If you try to use the ‘+’
operator on a string and an integer
• We can use ‘+’ combines the text of two strings. value, Python will not know how to
handle this, and it will display an error
message.
name1="I'm Mike " #assign string type variable
name2="I'm Alice "
print(name1+name2) #combine the texts of the two strings
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Knowledge Point - Operators Multiplication ‘*’
• The ‘*’ operator multiplies two integer or floating-point values.
Apple is $5.98 per pounds, how much is it to buy 6 pounds?
print(5.98*6)
• We can use ‘*’ on one string value and one integer value, it becomes the string replication operator.
name='Alice'
print(name*10) #print 10 'Alice'
• Shortcut key of ‘*’:
Press Shift+8 at the same time.
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Knowledge Point - Operators ‘/’ ‘//’ ‘%’
• Let’s try it:
a=22
b=10
c=a/b
print(c)
d=a//b # // returns the largest possible integer after division
e=a%b # % returns the remainder after division
print(d)
print(e)
What’s the value of the ‘c’, ‘d’ and ‘e’?
• Division ‘/’
• Floor division ‘//’
• Modulus ‘%’
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Practice
Price automatic calculator
Mike helps his mother sell eggs. Each egg is sold in18 cents, it is a very good price so their
eggs are very popular. He wants to have a tool, as long as the quantity is input, the total price
will come out automatically. Let us try to use Python to make a calculator for Mike!
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Practice
Code A:
price=0.68
quantity=input("Please input the egg quantity: ")
subtotal=price*quantity
print(subtotal)
We get error message with above codes, why?
• The default data type of input () is string, even the input data from keyboard is a numberic
data, it will become string type in program.
• When we learn multiplication operator ‘*’, there is no option to use between string and float
number.
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Practice
Code B:
price=0.68
quantity=input("Please input the egg quantity: ")
subtotal=price*int(quantity)
print(subtotal)
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Practice
Try with the code C:
price=0.68
quantity=input("Please input the egg quantity: ")
quantity=int(quantity)
subtotal=price*quantity
print(subtotal)
Q&A:
• How many variables in this program? A: Three. Price/quantity/subtotal.
• In quantity=int(quantity), is it assign a new variable or use the variable?
A: Only the first time that variable name appear is assigning.
When the variable name appears again, it is using the assigned variable.
• Shall we revise the saved value of variable during programming?
A: Yes, we can overwrite the stored value of variables. Variable is changable.
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Practice
Circumference calculator
Circle (a shape)
• The circle is a shape that seems very simple, but it’s
acutally very wonderful. The ancient people get
concept of circle from the sun in the beginning. A circle
is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at
a given distance from a given point, the centre.
• The distance between any point of the circle and the
centre is called the radius.
• The circumference = radius*2*pi (π)
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Practice
Pi 3.1415926535897932384626433832…….
• In Babylon, a clay tablet dated 1900–1600 BC has a
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geometrical statement that, by implication, treats π as =
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3.125.
• In Egypt, the Rhind Papyrus, dated around 1650 BC but
copied from a document dated to 1850 BC, has a formula for
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the area of a circle that treats π as ( )2 ≈ 3.16.
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• In one of the oldest Chinese mathematical book Zhoubi
Suanjing ((1046–256 BCE)), it mentioned “the ratio between
circle’s diameter and circumference is 1: 3”.
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Practice
• The Chinese mathematician Zu Chongzhi, around 480
AD, calculated that 3.1415926 < π < 3.1415927 and
suggested the approximations π ≈ 355 113
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=3.14159292035... and π ≈ =3.142857142857...,
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which he termed the Milü (''close ratio") and Yuelü
("approximate ratio"). With a correct value for its seven
first decimal digits, this value remained the most
accurate approximation of π available for the next 800
years.
• The Persian astronomer Jamshīd al-Kāshī produced 9
sexagesimal digits, roughly the equivalent of 16
decimal digits, in 1424 using a polygon with 3×228
sides, which stood as the world record for about 180
years.
• On March 14th, 2019, Google computed π to 31.4
trillion decimal places.
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Practice
The circumference (c) = radius (r)*2*pi (π)
π=3.1415926535
If:
r=3 cm, c=2* 3 * 3.1415926535= 18.849555921
r=7 cm, c=2 * 7* 3.1415926535 = 43.982297149
r=12 cm, c=2* 12 * 3.1415926535 = 75.398223684
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Practice
• C=2πr
• π=3.1415926535
• Now let’s make a calculator. With this calculator, we
can simply enter the radius and get the circumference
of the circle immediatly.
Code:
r=int(input("Please enter the radius of the circle: "))
a=3.1415926535
c=2*r*a
print(c)
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Quiz
Quiz
1. What are the types of numberic variables?
String, integer, float, boolean.
2. What operators do we learn today?
Addition +, multiplication *, division /, floor division //, modulus %.
3. What’s the data type of input ()?
The default data type of input () is string. When use operators, we should assign variable int(input()).
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See you next time!