'''
Created on Sep 23, 2016

@author: Arthur
'''

'''
    Print a message to the console
'''
print("Hello world!")

'''
    Read from the console
'''
a = input("Enter the first number: ")
b = input("Enter the second number: ")

'''
    NB!
    What is printed out and why?
'''
print(a + b)

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'''
    NB!
    What does this do?
'''
x = int(a)
y = int(b)

print(x + y)

'''
    NB!
    This is all very confusing... how do I know what is what? 
'''
print("this should be a string - " , type(a))
print("and this is an integer -", type(x))
