Exercise 13

Parameters, Unpacking, Variables

We’re now going to take a quick detour into the world of the Terminal (aka PowerShell) version of Python. If you did Exercise 0, “Getting Started,” correctly, you should have learned how to start your Terminal. If not, then simply find the program named PowerShell on Windows or Terminal on macOS. Later in this course you’ll learn how to use the Terminal more extensively, but in this exercise we’ll just do a tiny test.

First, I want you to create a file named ex13.py using Jupyter’s new Python file:

  1. On the left there’s a list of the files in your directory

  2. Above that list is a blue [+] button

  3. Click that button, and scroll to the very bottom where there should be a button for Python File with the Python ...

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