Python for Absolute Beginners Transcripts
Chapter: Course conclusion
Lecture: Review: Conditional statements
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One of the first interesting parts
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of programming that we focused on
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was conditional statements.
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Remember we were talking about how to make code, decide
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and make it interactive?
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So, here we're getting a random number from the computer.
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Remember that was the number of M&Ms in the jar
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and then we're getting a guess from the user
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on whether or not, you know, whatever number of M&Ms
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they thought there were there.
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And then we can check.
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If the guess is too low, we can say
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Your guess is too low.
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If it's too high, we say, it's too high
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and if they win, then they win.
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And this let us go around and around
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until they got the number of guesses right
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or they ran out of attempts.
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Remember they got five attempts to get it right
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they got a free lunch, or they just didn't get anything
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and had to pay for lunch.
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So, these conditional statements either are if
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elif, there's all these combinations you can have
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but they always start with if
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and they have some kind of truthy test
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like guess less the number
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or if you have a string
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you just put the string there and say
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if there is a value for the string
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we're going to do this thing and so on.
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So, if, elif, else
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and you put the -uthy type of statements in there
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to check them.
