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Coding Exercises for Beginners

The document outlines a series of coding exercises focused on variables, arithmetic operations, conditional statements, error handling, and functions. Each section provides specific tasks, such as prompting for user input, calculating pay, converting temperatures, and handling errors gracefully. The exercises culminate in the creation of functions to streamline the processes introduced in earlier tasks.

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Coding Exercises for Beginners

The document outlines a series of coding exercises focused on variables, arithmetic operations, conditional statements, error handling, and functions. Each section provides specific tasks, such as prompting for user input, calculating pay, converting temperatures, and handling errors gracefully. The exercises culminate in the creation of functions to streamline the processes introduced in earlier tasks.

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Teacher: Ako Eyo Oku

Coding
Exercises
START NOW
Teacher: Ako Eyo Oku

Section 1
VARIABLES
Exercise 1

Write a program that uses input to prompt a user for


their name and then welcomes them.

Example Output
Teacher: Ako Eyo Oku

Section 2
ARITHMETIC
OPERATIONS
Exercise 2

Write a program to prompt the user for hours and rate


per hour to compute gross pay.

Example Output
Exercise 3

Write a program which prompts the user for a Celsius


temperature, convert the temperature to Fahrenheit,
and print out the converted temperature.

Example Output
Teacher: Ako Eyo Oku

Section 3
CONDITIONAL
STATEMENTS
Exercise 4

Rewrite your pay computation to give the employee


1.5 times the hourly rate for hours worked above 40
hours.

Example Output
Teacher: Ako Eyo Oku

Section 4
ERROR
HANDLING
Exercise 5

Rewrite your pay


program using try and Example Output
except so that your
program handles non-
numeric input
gracefully by printing a
message and exiting
the program.
Exercise 6

Grade Table
Write a program to prompt for a
score between 0.0 and 1.0. If the
score is out of range, print an
error message. If the score is
between 0.0 and 1.0, print a grade
using the following table:
Exercise 6

Example Output
Write a program to prompt for a
score between 0.0 and 1.0. If the
score is out of range, print an
error message. If the score is
between 0.0 and 1.0, print a grade
using the following table:
Teacher: Ako Eyo Oku

Section 5
FUNCTIONS
Exercise 7

Rewrite your pay computation with time-and-a-half


for over-time and create a function called
computepay which takes two parameters (hours and
rate).

Example Output
Exercise 8

Grade Table
Rewrite the grade program from
the previous exercise 6 using
a function called computegrade
that takes a score as its
parameter and
returns a grade as a string.
Exercise 6

Example Output
Rewrite the grade program from
the previous exercise 6 using
a function called computegrade
that takes a score as its
parameter and
returns a grade as a string.
You’ve completed
the Exercises!
GOOD JOB!

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