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Errata

Apologies for the following errata in The MagPi 53If you spot any errors in our books or magazines please email  us via errata@raspberrypi.org. This list also appears on the Raspberry Pi forum.

On page 18, the code block:

		 name = "Polly"

print(name + “ put the kettle on) print(name + “ put the kettle on) print(name + “ put the kettle on) print(“We’ll all have tea”) <table class="crayon-table"> <td class="crayon-nums " data-settings="hide"> <div class="crayon-nums-content" style="font-size: 14px !important; line-height: 16px !important;"><div class="crayon-num" data-line="crayon-5d83625c9c8e5788926039-1">1<div class="crayon-num crayon-striped-num" data-line="crayon-5d83625c9c8e5788926039-2">2<div class="crayon-num" data-line="crayon-5d83625c9c8e5788926039-3">3<div class="crayon-num crayon-striped-num" data-line="crayon-5d83625c9c8e5788926039-4">4<div class="crayon-num" data-line="crayon-5d83625c9c8e5788926039-5">5<div class="crayon-num crayon-striped-num" data-line="crayon-5d83625c9c8e5788926039-6">6 <td class="crayon-code"><div class="crayon-pre" style="font-size: 14px !important; line-height: 16px !important; -moz-tab-size:4; -o-tab-size:4; -webkit-tab-size:4; tab-size:4;"><div class="crayon-line" id="crayon-5d83625c9c8e5788926039-1">name=“Polly”<div class="crayon-line crayon-striped-line" id="crayon-5d83625c9c8e5788926039-2"> <div class="crayon-line" id="crayon-5d83625c9c8e5788926039-3">printname+” put the kettle on)<div class="crayon-line crayon-striped-line" id="crayon-5d83625c9c8e5788926039-4">print(name + “put kettle )<div class="crayon-line" id="crayon-5d83625c9c8e5788926039-5">printname+” put the kettle on)<div class="crayon-line crayon-striped-line" id="crayon-5d83625c9c8e5788926039-6">print(“’ll have “)

This should be

		 name = "Polly"

print(name + “ put the kettle on”) print(name + “ put the kettle on”) print(name + “ put the kettle on”) print(“We’ll all have tea”) <table class="crayon-table"> <td class="crayon-nums " data-settings="hide"> <div class="crayon-nums-content" style="font-size: 14px !important; line-height: 16px !important;"><div class="crayon-num" data-line="crayon-5d83625c9c8f8368341682-1">1<div class="crayon-num crayon-striped-num" data-line="crayon-5d83625c9c8f8368341682-2">2<div class="crayon-num" data-line="crayon-5d83625c9c8f8368341682-3">3<div class="crayon-num crayon-striped-num" data-line="crayon-5d83625c9c8f8368341682-4">4<div class="crayon-num" data-line="crayon-5d83625c9c8f8368341682-5">5<div class="crayon-num crayon-striped-num" data-line="crayon-5d83625c9c8f8368341682-6">6 <td class="crayon-code"><div class="crayon-pre" style="font-size: 14px !important; line-height: 16px !important; -moz-tab-size:4; -o-tab-size:4; -webkit-tab-size:4; tab-size:4;"><div class="crayon-line" id="crayon-5d83625c9c8f8368341682-1">name=“Polly”<div class="crayon-line crayon-striped-line" id="crayon-5d83625c9c8f8368341682-2"> <div class="crayon-line" id="crayon-5d83625c9c8f8368341682-3">printname+” put the kettle on”)<div class="crayon-line crayon-striped-line" id="crayon-5d83625c9c8f8368341682-4">printname+” put the kettle on”)<div class="crayon-line" id="crayon-5d83625c9c8f8368341682-5">printname+” put the kettle on”)<div class="crayon-line crayon-striped-line" id="crayon-5d83625c9c8f8368341682-6">print“We’ll all have tea”)

On page 23, the code block:

This should be:

On Page 23 the phrase “The brief for our FizzBuzz is to print the numbers from 1 to 100” should read “to print the numbers up to 100.”

The FizzBuzz code on Page 25 displays numbers from 0 to 99. If you want to create a FizzBuzz program that meets the brief, change:

to

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