# The big print block at the start
print("Mary had a little lamb.")

# this is kind of interesting. The format and word are put into the place
# of the curly braces
print("Its fleece was white as {}.".format('snow'))
print("And everywhere that Mary went.")

# print a line of periods
print("." * 10) # what'd that do?

# single character variables
end1 = "C"
end2 = "h"
end3 = "e"
end4 = "e"
end5 = "s"
end6 = "e"
end7 = "B"
end8 = "u"
end9 = "r"
end10 = "g"
end11 = "e"
end12 = "r"

# watch that comma at the end. try removing it to see what happens
# print it all out
# the end=' ' just sets a variable called end to a space and prints it
print(end1 + end2 + end3 + end4 + end5 + end6, end=' ')
# the last of it
print(end7 + end8 + end9 + end10 + end11 + end12)

# we are supposed to journal our mistakes. I was lucky and didn't make any 
# in this one

# other notes - you can use single- or double-quotes to make a string
# usually use single-quotes for short strings and characters

