Course badge for Disease Epidemic - Python

Get a taste for programming!

This activity is designed to give students their first experience programming, and has been specially designed for the Hour of Code.

Students will use Python to model a disease outbreak. Can they solve the curious case of the glowing nose?

Students will be introduced to the following concepts:

  • printing output to the screen,
  • getting input from the user,
  • storing data in variables,
  • integers and strings as different data types,
  • mathematical manipulation of integers, and
  • making decisions using if statements.