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Lesson 6. Capstone project: your first Python program—convert hours to minutes

After reading lesson 6, you’ll be able to

• Read your first programming problem
• Walk through two possible solutions
• Write your first Python program

Here are some of the main ideas you should be familiar with so far:

• Programs are made up of a sequence of statements.
• Some statements initialize variables.
• Some statements can be expressions to do calculations.
• Variables should be given descriptive and meaningful names, especially to help future programmers who might be looking at the code.
• Some calculations you’ve seen so far are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, remainder, and power.
• You can convert an object to a different type.
• The print command can ...