Programming 102 Week 1 Challenges (Python)

In originally planned to do one blog entry for all the Programming 102 course (see: https://geektechstuff.com/2019/01/21/programming-102-think-like-a-computer-scientist-python-raspberry-pi/) but due to the amount of coding tasks/challenges (which is great) I’ve going to do one for each week and possibly one for the end of week challenges.

Week 1

Challenge 2: “Create a function with one parameter, name, which will be the name of a person. The function should then “sing” Happy Birthday to that person, inserting their name at the correct point. Give your function a sensible name.“

# geektechstuff
# Happy Birthday

import time

def happy_birthday(name):
name = name.capitalize()
for x in range(2):
print(‘Happy Birthday to you.’)
time.sleep(1)
print(‘Happy Birthday to’,name,’!’)
time.sleep(1)
print(‘Happy Birthday to you.’)
time.sleep(1)
for x in range(3):
print(‘Hip Hip Hooray!’)

happy_birthday(‘gary’)

I’ve used the sleep() function from the time module so that the Birthday message doesn’t display instantly.