We mean no offense to anyone's dear grandmother, but if Granny was a programmer then she'd have a word or two to say about this version of hello world.

Hello World is a traditional program created anytime someone wants to demonstrate or test everything needed to get a basic program to run or to show the basics of what that program looks like. It is usually the simplest program that can be written in the language, and has been written in dozens if not hundreds of programming languages. But why not show all the fundamental programming concepts of the language as well? All modern languages have variables, data types, strings, numbers, booleans, lists/arrays, dictionaries/maps, operators, loops, logic, conditionals, blocks, functions, errors/exceptions, math, command line arguments, and modules/packages. This unusual version of hello world helps you learn and compare them all and hopefully will give students something significant to show the comprehensive programming skills they have learned and not just the print() function.

Depending on how much programming you have done this might take you longer than you might expect, but it will be worth it. Don't worry. You can finish the first part in under two minutes (if you can actually type that is).

Make sure you have the Code and Prep™ skills mastered before attempting this one. This is the first Fundamentals project we do at SkilStak beginning with Python, then JavaScript, and then HTML, (which everyone knows isn't a programming language, but still important to learn early). Other Core courses do it as well in Go, Java, C, Shell, even LolCode. [And if it can't be coded from the command line it's an irrelevant language anyway that you shouldn't waste any time on.]

Note: Make sure you start with Python since it covers things like creating your first script file, permissions and such.