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+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "e06e8c55-6300-414a-b248-e610342edc6e",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "# Activity 1"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "8f0211dc-fa5f-4237-93a7-75a3cf040895",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "For this activity, we will be familiarizing ourselves with creating python variables and data types. \n",
+    "\n",
+    "Please make sure you open this file in Jupyter Notebook or Google Colab -- you will have to either open Jupyter Notebook first or upload the file to Google Colab before being able to edit the file. \n",
+    "\n",
+    "Please make sure you **print your output.** You may need to use ```print``` for your output to be displayed.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "-----\n",
+    "## Submission Instructions\n",
+    "1. Upload the completed activity to the \"Activities\" folder of your GitHub Portfolio;\n",
+    "2. Ensure your submission consists of two files: <br/>(a) one single-page reflection in markdown (e.g. `a1_reflection.md`);  <br/>(b) one Jupyter notebook with completed responses to each activity step (e.g. `a1_building_blocks.ipynb`). "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "d00e1320-3c81-497c-9ab8-c09fe0a21e26",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Please respond with your code in the cells."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "eda0bdc8-c7d3-4c61-abaf-1fbae7a35034",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "1. Create a variable for your first name called ```first```."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "5150dcfe-7018-4c89-bb50-4c432379924d",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "c61ee004-5faf-4710-8ae6-4a752b2ad673",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "2. Create a variable for your last name called ```last```."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "9143791d-5460-41c0-9e80-3bc59318b2ec",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "1a81a966-5a53-471e-a479-78085f26ad85",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "3. Create a variable for your age called ```age```."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "d50476c7-f82c-4f8e-a20d-18f6e36de9b2",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "8b92dcfb-7784-41bc-b58d-0678d0a85258",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "4. Using the variables you have created, create a new variable ```name``` by joining your first and last names together.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "    (Hint: To join strings, you will have to use string **concatenation**."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "d21cd5ed-26aa-4ab4-a6e7-02f992bd0119",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "cf57471f-11a9-41d9-8342-a0b5ff28b8b0",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "5. Convert the variable ```activity1 = \"WOOHOO! THIS IS MY FIRST PYTHON ACTIVITY!!\"``` to all lowercase (no capital letters) with a string method.   \n",
+    "   Save this output as a new variable ```activtiy1_lower```.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "\n",
+    "   (Hint: To get all uppercase, the string methods is ```.upper()```."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 6,
+   "id": "19cf1155-0517-465f-aa6e-2b3bf0406d64",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "activity1 = \"WOOHOO! THIS IS MY FIRST PYTHON ACTIVITY!!\"\n"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "927c8101-95a3-4d1d-b6d9-d390b94b2ad9",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "6. What data type is the variable ```age```? Check the data type."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "02a0e871-653a-433d-bf31-8430c6c55a49",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "006b4e55-9d77-4007-86a5-e03408b737f1",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "7. What happens when you add ```10``` to your ```name```? Please demonstrate it in the cell below and provide a brief explanation for the result. "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "547478df-4528-4697-a480-80b383d6aa29",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "68e0be42-6b1c-4133-ae1f-eac4e08de48d",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "8. Explain the error below in your own words. "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 8,
+   "id": "db45122f-4ff2-4e3a-a360-39747ebfba26",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "ename": "SyntaxError",
+     "evalue": "unterminated string literal (detected at line 1) (203369067.py, line 1)",
+     "output_type": "error",
+     "traceback": [
+      "\u001b[0;36m  Cell \u001b[0;32mIn[8], line 1\u001b[0;36m\u001b[0m\n\u001b[0;31m    print(\"Hope this goes off without a hitch!)\u001b[0m\n\u001b[0m          ^\u001b[0m\n\u001b[0;31mSyntaxError\u001b[0m\u001b[0;31m:\u001b[0m unterminated string literal (detected at line 1)\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "print(\"Hope this goes off without a hitch!)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "d2b9ec67-9689-4220-b8ad-7de01fb6ca33",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": []
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "20bd577c-9c9c-4084-90c0-d1dc38f59da5",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "-------"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "0f5f0cca-38e0-4ffd-8adf-e65469913076",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Side quest challenge\n",
+    "\n",
+    "This side quest is an extra credit challenge. You can still get full credit for this activity even if you do not complete this challenge."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "6837c438-eeba-498d-9cc5-08aadf1420dc",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Use ***f-string formatting*** to display your ```name``` and ```age``` in a sentence.   \n",
+    "\n",
+    "Check out Kyle Bradbury and Nick Eubank's [introduction to f-strings](https://nickeubank.github.io/practicaldatascience_book/notebooks/other/fstrings.html)."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "5e88c0c0-288b-4f3b-82ff-8c8582855b1d",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  }
+ ],
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+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
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