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- [Instructor] In this
self-check exercise,

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we'd like you to take advantage
of string concatenation

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and string repetition to
create a concatenation

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of your first and your last name

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and then to use the repetition operator

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to create a bar of asterisks
that's the same length

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as your concatenated
name, and display that bar

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above and below your name as well.

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So go ahead and pause the
video to give that a shot,

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and then come back to see the results.

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Okay, let's start out by assuming we have

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a first name and a last
name, Pam and Black,

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and we're going to assign
to name the string Pam

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and we're going to concatenate

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with that the string Black.

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So if I go ahead and execute those,

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I now have Pam space Black
as the value of name,

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and the next thing I'm
going to do is define

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a bar variable, which is
just a single asterisk,

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and let's repeat that by the length

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of the newly concatenated name string.

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So bar times equals len
name is going to figure out

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the proper number of
characters in Pam space Black.

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Repeat the asterisk that number of times

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and store the result in bar,

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and then finally we can go ahead

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and display the bar, a new line, the name,

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a new line, and the bar again,

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and as you can see here
indeed we get Pam Black

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with the correct number of
asterisks above and below.