Python Block Structure and Indentation - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Python Block Structure and Indentation

📖 Scenario: You are helping a small bakery keep track of daily sales and decide if they met their sales goal.

🎯 Goal: Build a simple Python program that uses indentation and blocks correctly to check if the bakery met its sales goal and print a message.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a variable with the total sales amount.

Create a variable with the sales goal amount.

Use an if-else block with correct indentation to compare sales and goal.

Print a message depending on whether the goal was met or not.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Businesses often use simple programs like this to check if they met daily targets and decide next steps.

💼 Career

Understanding Python block structure and indentation is essential for writing clear, error-free code in any programming job.

1

Create the sales data variable

Create a variable called total_sales and set it to 1200 to represent the bakery's total sales for the day.

Python

# Create a variable called total_sales and set it to 1200
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the equals sign = to assign the value 1200 to the variable total_sales.

2

Set the sales goal

Create a variable called sales_goal and set it to 1000 to represent the bakery's sales target for the day.

Python

total_sales = 1200
# Create a variable called sales_goal and set it to 1000
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Remember to use a new line and assign 1000 to sales_goal.

3

Write the if-else block to check sales

Write an if statement to check if total_sales is greater than or equal to sales_goal. Use a colon : and indent the next line. Inside the if block, write message = "Goal met! Great job!". Then write an else block with the same indentation as if, and inside it write message = "Goal not met. Keep trying!" indented properly.

Python

total_sales = 1200
sales_goal = 1000
# Write an if-else block to set the message variable based on sales
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Remember to indent the lines inside the if and else blocks by 4 spaces.

4

Print the result message

Write a print statement to display the value of the message variable.

Python

total_sales = 1200
sales_goal = 1000
if total_sales >= sales_goal:
    message = "Goal met! Great job!"
else:
    message = "Goal not met. Keep trying!"
# Print the message variable
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use print(message) to show the message on the screen.