Boxes with names

A variable is a name you give to a value so you can use it again. Write the name, an equals sign, then the value. From then on the name stands in for the value.

How it reads

• sky = "wide open" stores the text on the right under the name sky
• The name goes on the left, the value on the right of the =
• print(sky) shows whatever sky is holding right now

Cloud tip: An = in Python means "put this value into this name". It is not the equals from math.