Printing Text on the Screen

Your challenge

Think about the last time you went to the cinema. After paying for your ticket, the cashier handed you a slip showing the movie name, time, seat number, and price. That slip wasn’t created by hand, a program generated it.

In this exercise, we’ll build a simple version of that system. No math, no storage, just printing the exact ticket text as it should look.

This is what the ticket will look like:

You’ve been assigned to design this cinema ticket! For now, the only tool you’ll use is Python’s print() function.

The big idea

The concept for today is the built-in function. These are commands Python already understands. You don’t need to create them, you just call them.

The one we’ll use is print(). Its job is to display text or numbers on the screen. You place what you want to show inside parentheses, and Python will print it for you.

Example:

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print("Hello World")

This will show:

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Hello World

That’s it, you’ve written your first Python code!

Look closely at our ticket. It’s nothing more than lines of text, written in a certain order. Without print(), none of that text would appear. In this first version of our cinema program, every single line will come from its own print() statement.

⭐ Quick facts

• print() is a built-in Python command.
• Everything you want to display goes inside parentheses.
• Text must be in quotes: "Hello!"

Try it out

Let’s print the first two lines of our ticket:

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print("=== CINEMA TICKET ===")
print("Cashier Name: Maria")

When you run this, you’ll see:

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=== CINEMA TICKET ===
Cashier Name: Maria

To complete the full ticket, just keep adding more print() lines.

Using AI for help

If you’re working with an AI assistant, you can simply ask:

Prompt:
Write a Python program that prints this exact cinema ticket using only print() statements:

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=== CINEMA TICKET ===
Cashier Name: Maria

Movie: The Great Adventure
Showtime: 7:30 PM
Seat: C12

Price: $12

The AI will give you a ready-to-run program.

Time to practice

Great job! You’ve now built your own working Python ticket printer. But let’s make sure you’ve got the idea by trying something new.

Task

Print the following ticket exactly as shown, using only print() statements:

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=== CINEMA TICKET ===
Cashier Name: John

Movie: Space Journey
Showtime: 9:00 PM
Seat: B7

Price: $15

Solution

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print("=== CINEMA TICKET ===")
print("Cashier Name: John")
print()
print("Movie: Space Journey")
print("Showtime: 9:00 PM")
print("Seat: B7")
print()
print("Price: $15")

Perfect! Your Python cinema app is now complete.