Choose Your Path (if/else)

Make programs that decide! Use if, elif and else with comparisons.

🎯 What you will learn

Programs get smart when they can make decisions 🧠. Is the password right? Did you win? Let’s teach Python to choose!

1. ⚖️ Comparing

== checks if things are equal. > means bigger, < means smaller.

print(5 > 3)
print(2 == 4)

2. 🔀 if / else

If the question is True, do the first part. Otherwise do the else part.

age = 9
if age >= 8:
    print("You can ride! 🎢")
else:
    print("Next year! 🙂")

3. 🛣️ elif

elif adds more paths in between.

score = 75
if score >= 90:
    print("Gold 🥇")
elif score >= 70:
    print("Silver 🥈")
else:
    print("Bronze 🥉")

Change the code and press ▶ Run to see what happens. You can’t break anything!

password = input("Say the password: ")
if password == "banana":
    print("The door opens! 🚪✨")
else:
    print("Wrong password! 🔒")

temp = 30
if temp > 25:
    print("Wear shorts 🩳")
else:
    print("Wear a jacket 🧥")

Tap a card to flip it over!

Set number = 7. If it is bigger than 5 print “big”, otherwise print “small”.

number = 7