Welcome to Crafting Your First Interactive Program! This module, you’ll be introduced to variables, operators, type casting, and user input. You’ll be able to gauge your knowledge of how these elements work in Python through completing practice quizzes, an interactive lab, and a cumulative graded quiz. This module also covers activities to consider when writing a program from start to finish to help you work on your first assignment that generates a poem from user input.

In this module, you will learn about how to selectively execute or ignore code blocks and generate random numbers to make your program behave differently each time it runs. Learning these skills will help you make your program more interactive. To test your skills, you will be asked to complete practice quizzes, autograded labs, and a cumulative graded quiz.

You will learn the basics of using loops in Python, an integral component of making useful (and larger) Python programs while minimizing your time spent coding. You’ll use your new knowledge of loops to do some string processing and identify errors that come up in your code along the way. To test your skills, you will be asked to complete practice quizzes, autograded labs, and a cumulative graded quiz. And you'll wrap with creating your own text game using everything you've learned in this course!