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Now, if you head over to the course resources, you'll be able to find a link to this first code exercise.

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And the idea is that you're going to create basically a virtual coin-toss program so that when you run

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the code, it should give you tails or heads depending on which random number was generated.

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Try to use what you've learned in the previous lesson to complete this challenge.

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So pause the video now and give that a go.

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All right, let's go through the solution together.

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So first, make sure you've forked your copy of the exercise so that it's under your own username, and

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then we're going to go to main.py where we always write our code.

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Now, in order to use the random module, we first have to import it.

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So the module is called random.

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So we write import random. And now using the random module, we can now tap into randint, which will

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generate a random integer between a starting number and a ending number

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and it's inclusive of both numbers.

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So let's call this the random_side.

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And using this random_side, we can use an if statement to check well if the random side that was

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generated is equal to one, well, in that case, that means we should print that we generated heads.

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So that's the part of the coin which normally shows a person's face.

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Now we can use else to catch the situation where we get a zero, and in this case, we'll print tails instead.

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So that's all there is to it.

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And of course, as always, there are many, many ways that you could solve this challenge.

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And if you're creative or if you looked around and you found a different way, then that's great.

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But this is how we would do it using what we learned in the previous lesson.

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So how did you get on with it? If you got stuck or if you forgot how to do certain things or if some

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parts of your code didn't work or if you had errors, then this is the time to go back and fix it so

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that you actually understand what's going on and we can proceed.

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So once you're done, head over to the next lesson

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and we're going to learn about Python lists.