Python for Absolute Beginners Transcripts
Chapter: Code that interacts with users
Lecture: Interactive code intro
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It's time to write interactive code
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and this is where writing programs
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and doing software really fun.
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So far, what we've done is we've just told the program
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Do Step One, and then Step Two, and then Step Three.
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Maybe we got some input from the user
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but there was no decision or alternate paths made around it.
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So, we're going to write code and make the code decide.
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Think of the Talk Python website.
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If you go there and you're not logged in
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it'll do one thing, if you are logged in, it'll do another.
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For example, if you try to view a course
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and you're not logged in, it'll tell you to log in
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or it'll take you to the course to just browse it
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and you can learn more about it and sign up there.
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Once you do log in, it needs to know
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does this course belong to you, are you registered for it
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or is this some other course?
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And it's going to decide
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if you're registered, let's show them the lessons
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and let them get started on the videos.
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But if they're not, well
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send them over to learn more about it so they can sign up
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things like that. So this is where programs get real
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they get fun, they get interesting
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and they can do legitimately cool things
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and that's what we're going to do in this chapter.