Python

Learn Python with the Women in Tech Personality Quiz

January 25, 2021

Created by Locksley Kolakowski with inspiration from the Learn Python basics with Wonder Woman Microsoft Learn module!

Let's meet our inspiring Women in Tech!

Reshma Saujani

Reshma Saujani is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code. Girls Who Code is leading the movement to inspire, educate, and equip young women with the computing skills to pursue 21st-century opportunities. Source.

Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton led the NASA software team that landed astronauts on the moon. The computing software she created for the Apollo missions was to interrupt one task to take on a more important one. She also popularized the term "software engineering." Source.

Susan Wojcicki

Susan Wojcicki joined Google the year after it was founded and has been behind many of the search engine’s most defining features, including creating the first-ever Google Doodle. She became head of YouTube in 2014 after it was bought by Google in 2006. Source.

Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson helped synch Project Apollo’s Lunar Module with the lunar-orbiting Command and Service Module. At age 97, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Source.

Step 1: Navigate to Python Sandbox

1. Go to Python Sandbox
   • If you have Python and a text editor preinstalled on your computer, feel free to use that to run your code

Step 2: Experiment with some basic Python

1. In the Editor Window, clear the line of code that was already there and insert the following:

# Hello, world!

2. Click the Play (▶️) button. What do you see in the Output Window?
3. You should see nothing! The first thing we did was create a Comment
   • A Comment can only be seen by the developer and is used to help make the code easier for humans to read.
   • It is also used to help test the code when we run into an error.
4. Now let's create a variable. The first variable we are going to create is a string which is used when we want to save text. Try typing the following code and hit Play (▶️).
   • You can use a single quote or double quote to create a string

firstProgram = "Hello, world!"

5. Although we created a variable, it is not appearing in the Output Window yet. There is one more thing we need to do. Add the following print() method to your program:

print("Hello, world!")

6. Try clicking Play (▶️) again. This time, Hello, World! should appear in the Output Window.
7. You can also print Hello, world! by using our string variable from earlier.

print(firstProgram)

Step 3: Let's level up!

1. In addition to the string variable, we're going to learn about ints and booleans today.
   • An int is short for integer, and it can be a whole number.
   • A boolean is a binary operator that can return either True or False.
   • There are other common variables such as floats and lists, but we won't be using them in our workshop today.
2. Create an int that holds your age and call the print() method. After doing that, hit Play (▶️).

myAge = 20
print(myAge)

3. Now, create one more variable that holds your name. Once again, call the print() method and click Play (▶️).

myName = "Locksley"
print(myName)

4. Let's bring it all together! We're going to bring our firstProgram, myAge, and myName variable together into the following statement with a couple of extra pieces. Replace all of your current code with the following snippet that we'll declare the sentence we want to print and concatenate the sentence together.

firstProgram = "Hello, world!"
intro = "My name is"
myName = "Locksley"
i = "I am"
myAge = 20
years = "years old"

# Save concatenated values in a string variable.
fullSentence = firstProgram + intro + myName + i + myAge + years
print(fullSentence)

5. This program won't work. You'll receive an error message explaining that you cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects.

6. We'll change this by implementing the str() function to convert our string into an integer. We'll create a new variable to hold this string.

firstProgram = "Hello, world!"
intro = "My name is"
myName = "Locksley"
i = "I am"
myAge = 20
years = "years old"

strInt = str(myAge)

# Save concatenated values in a string variable.
fullSentence = firstProgram + intro + myName + i + strInt + years
print(fullSentence)

7. After running the program, you'll notice that all of the phrases are stuck together.

Step 4: Let's encode our quiz questions!

These are the questions and answers we're going to use:

1. What is your favorite color?

• Red
• Blue
• Green
• Purple

2. What would you like to major in?

• Business
• Law
• Mathematics
• Computer Science
• Other

3. What company would you most like to work for?

• NASA
• Google
• Start my own company

4. What is the best invention?

• Space travel
• Smartphones
• The internet

Implement the code

1. Replace all of the code in the Editor Window with the following snippet:

# Collect input for our questions.
answer = input( "What is your favorite color?\n(A) Red\n(B) Blue\n(C) Green\n(D) Purple" )

answer = input( "What would you like to major in?\n(A) Business\n(B) Law\n(C) Mathematics\n(D) Computer Science\n(E) Other")

answer = input( "3. What company would you most like to work for?\n(A) NASA\n(B) Google\n(C) Start my own company" )

answer = input( "What is the best invention?\n(A) Space travel\n(B) Smart phones\n(C) The internet" )

2. The input() function will trigger a pop up in our Python Sandbox where you can input your response.
   • The new line character \n will space the answers across multiple lines.
3. Paste the code into Python Sandbox and click Play (▶️). A pop-up will appear that you can click through.

Step 5: Add our counter variables

1. Right now, we can click through the pop-up, but no tallies are scored. We need to add some counter variables to store this information.
2. Below the code that is already there, input the following variables:

# Start all of the women in tech at 0.
reshma = 0
margaret = 0
susan = 0
katherine = 0

Step 6: Add our logic

1. Now, we need to create logic that counts up the values when you select the corresponding answer. Copy and paste the following code for our first question: what is your favorite color?
   • We will use if/elif/else statements to run through the code
   • If an input is equal to a variable, it will trigger our counter
   • If the user incorrectly typed in something (or neglected to type in anything), it will choose a value to use.

# Answer counter for our first question: what is your favorite color?
if answer == "A":
  reshma += 1
elif answer == "B":
  margaret += 1
elif answer == "C":
  susan += 1
elif answer == "D":
  katherine += 1
else:
  print("You did not select one of the answers for question 1. We're going to say you selected A")
  reshma += 1

2. Copy and paste the following code for our second question: what would you like to major in?

# Answer counter for our second question: what would you like to major in?
if answer == "B":
  reshma += 1
elif answer == "A" or "E":
  susan += 1
elif answer == "C" or "D":
  margaret += 1
  katherine += 1
else:
  print("You did not select one of the answers for question 2. We're going to say you selected C")
  margaret += 1
  katherine += 1

3. Copy and paste the following code for our third question: what company would you most like to work for?

# Answer counter for our third question: hat company would you most like to work for?
if answer == "A":
  margaret += 1
  katherine += 1
elif answer == "B":
  susan += 1
elif answer == "C":
  reshma += 1;
else:
  print("You did not select one of the answers for question 3. We're going to say you selected B")
  susan += 1

4. Copy and paste the following code for our fourth question: what is the best invention?

# Answer counter for our fourth question: wWhat is the best invention?
if answer == "A":
  margaret += 1
  katherine += 1
elif answer == "B":
  susan += 1
elif answer == "C":
  reshma += 1;
else:
  print("You did not select one of the answers for question 4. We're going to say you selected A")
  margaret += 1
  katherine += 1

Step 7: Determine what score is the highest

1. Our final step is to add some logic to figure out which score is the highest. Use the following if/elif/else statements to determine which role model had the highest score and print that person to the Output Window.

# Determine which woman in tech had the highest score and print the results!
if (reshma > margaret and susan and katherine):
    print("Congratulations! You are most like Reshma!")
elif (margaret > reshma and susan and katherine):
  print("Congratulations! You are most like Margaret!")
elif (susan > margaret and reshma and katherine):
  print("Congratulations! You are most like Susan!")
else:
  print("Congratulations! You are most like Katherine!")

Step 8: Think critically

Congratulations! You have built a working personality quiz! If you have extra time, start thinking about what you can add to make your personality quiz unique:

• Can I add more role models?
• Can I add more questions?
• If the player wanted to leave early or quit, how would that be done?

Adding these extra pieces will help you think about your work in new ways and display your own creativity.

Next steps

If you are interested in learning more and growing your Python skills, check out these resources:

• Learn Python basics with Wonder Woman - This was the inspiration for this workshop!
• Take your first steps with Python