This document discusses how to input variables in code from a user. It explains that input from a user needs to be stored in a variable, and demonstrates code using the input function to prompt a user for input and store it in a variable. As an example, it shows code that prompts a user to enter a test grade, stores it in a variable, converts it to a percentage, and prints out the results.

1. OBTAINING INPUT

2. INPUTTING A VARIABLE
• When a value in entered from the user it needs to be
stored somewhere
• Question: What do we use to store information?
• Not much different than assigning a variable
• Prompts!!!

3. CODE TO INPUT A VARIABLE
 How to input values from the user
› Code: variable = input(“Prompt “)
› variable – stores the input from the user.
› input – function to extract user input from the
command prompt.
› “Prompt” – a string to inform the user of the type of
value to enter.
 Ex. Inputting a numerical value
testGrade1 = input(”Enter test grade 1: “)
testGrade *= 100
print(”Test Grade: “, testGrade, “%”)