1 Coffee for friends: First steps

In this chapter

  • Erik gets an idea
  • Erik and Simon discuss the future application
  • Erik installs a code editor and tries to run his first program in Python
  • Simon explains how to use variables
  • Erik writes his first dialogue in Python

It all started on a sunny summer day. Erik came home with an idea: he wanted to prepare coffee drinks for his friends. Who knew that he would create his own online application for that?

“I’ll make it just like at Starbucks, with many flavors and toppings,” he thought. “I think I have everything I need: coffee, three or four flavors to add, and some chocolate cream for toppings. Great!”

“Where’s my iPad?” he asked his older brother Simon.

“Where you left it. Why?”

“I need it to collect ...

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