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Alright let's start this section by a discussion of variables and a built in

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primitive types in Python including integers

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floats, booleans, and strings. So here I'm going to define

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a few variables, starting with the first one, students

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count. Note that here all the letters are lower case

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and we're using an underscore to separate multiple words.

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This is the naming convention we use in Python. So here we set

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students count to let's say 1000 this is an example of a

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integer, let's look at an example of a float, so we set rating

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to 4 let's say 99, here's

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another variable, is published let's set this to true

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or false, note that the first letter is

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upper case, and finally let's take a look at an example of a

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string. So we set course name to Python.

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Now in Python you can either use double quotes or single

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quotes. Or you can use triple quotes if you're string

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has multiple lines. For example, here I can put

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triple quotes and in between them I can add

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a string that has multiple lines, okay?

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Now one interesting feature in Python is you can

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initialize multiple variables on the same line. For example, let

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say we have coordinates like x and y, we can

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initialize these two on the same line. So we can set x

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comma y, we set it to 1, 2

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this line is exactly equivalent to these two lines.

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So, its a short cut. And finally just like

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almost every programming language, we can set multiple variables to the same

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value. For example, we can set x and y to

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1. So these are the basics of variables. Next I will
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talk about dynamic nature of Python.