From 776a0295f025f5919b5cbabc0a3ae29da1dc813a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vedansh Agarwal <vedanshagarwal4@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 22:38:32 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Basic calculator

---
 Basics/calculator.py | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Basics/calculator.py

diff --git a/Basics/calculator.py b/Basics/calculator.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ebeb407f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Basics/calculator.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+def operate(a, b, choice):
+    #creating a dictionary (equivalent to switch-case statements)
+    switcher = { 
+        1: a+b, 
+        2: a-b, 
+        3: a*b,
+        4: a/b,
+        5: a**b,
+        6: a%b
+    } 
+    
+    return switcher.get(choice, "Invalid choice")
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    #Menu - Available choices
+    print("1. Addition\n2. Substraction\n3. Multiplication\n4. Division\n5. Exponentiation\n6. Modulo\n")
+    
+    firstNum = float(input('Enter first number : '))
+    secondNum = float(input('Enter second number : '))
+    choice = int(input('Enter choice from the above list : '))
+    
+    print(operate(firstNum, secondNum, choice))
+            
+