Hello, Out Loud

What print does

A computer does not tell you anything unless you ask it to. print is how you ask.

Whatever you put between the brackets of print(...) gets shown on the screen. If you wrap it in quotes, Python treats it as plain text and shows it exactly as written — letters, spaces, punctuation and all.

That is the whole idea. There is nothing hidden underneath it.

A worked example

Here is a different program, so you can see the shape of it without being given the answer:

print("--> ready")
print("--> steady")
print("--> go")

Running that prints three lines:

--> ready
--> steady
--> go

Three print lines, three lines of output, in the order they were written. Notice that the arrows and the spaces come out exactly as they were typed — Python did not tidy anything up or add anything of its own.

Your turn

The editor already holds a working program. It prints a banner: a row of = signs, two lines of text, then another row of = signs.

One thing is missing. The second line says YOUR NAME instead of your name.

Replace those two words with your own name, keep the quotes exactly where they are, and press Run.

That is the entire task. You are not expected to write a line from scratch yet.

If something goes wrong

If Python complains, it is almost always the quotes. The text you want printed has to sit between them — "Hello, Sam!" works, Hello, Sam! on its own does not, because without quotes Python thinks you are referring to something by name rather than spelling out text.

Nothing you do here can break anything. Change it, run it, change it again.