How do i make my program ask further questions to the user?

Question

i am literally an absolute beginner in programming so i would be very grateful if someone could help me out. my program looks like this:

age = input("Your Age:")
ageNum = int(age)

if ageNum >= 18:
    print("Why do you want to ride the roller coaster")
else:
    print("You are not allowed to ride the roller coaster")

it functions exactly the way i want it to but i want add a feature.i want it to ask allow the user to answer 'why do you want to ride the roller coaster'.

Answer 1

To ask a question for the user to answer, instead of saying

print("Why do you want to ride the roller coaster")

(which just displays something on the screen rather than asking the user a question) you can use the built-in input() function. So you can replace the line that has

print("Why do you want to ride the roller coaster")

with

yourVariableName = input("Why do you want to ride the roller coaster? ")

Then you can respond to the user's answer:

print("Your message here")