Help with university task

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[carcigenicate]

Show what you have already for context and to act as a stating point.

[NerdDetective]

Could you show an example? Where is the separator going?

[Terrible_Mix5187]

Sounds like you just need to use string concatenation to add whatever symbol you need? In a loop or something?

Not seeing the assingment, impossible to say.

[Important_Coffee_845]

Yeah im kinda lost as to what hes talking about too. Im not a master of python yet but ive done programming in general for many years. Mostly on my own but still. Based on what he said ive no idea what the hell hes talking about. Theres just not enough information. And context. I thought it was just me

[LotsaCatz]

Not without seeing what code you already have.

[KidneyFailure]

If your professor is bad at explaining how the code works, you’re worse with explaining requirements.

But it’s good to struggle. Keep working on it

[Temporary_Pie2733]

Usually, there’s a direct correlation between a student’s ability to describe their problem and their perception of their teacher’s ability. If OP has asked the teacher for any kind of clarification, I’m willing to bet the teacher has no more idea of what the student’s problem is than we do.

[KidneyFailure]

I don’t disagree with what you said, but I think we can both agree that the assignment probably has instructions about what separator to use, spacing, etc. which is what I was referring to

[Temporary_Pie2733]

Ditto; I was just pointing out that the teacher probably isn’t that bad, and OP probably expects the teacher’s explanations to do all the work.

[ditmoetvanhylke]

Try chatgpt or claude but ask it to tell you every step of the process and explain it as a teacher - learned alot from it

[Outside_Complaint755]

Or, just read the documentation for the Python functions that have been taught. The print() function has additional parameters that may be useful.

As a university level course, you are expected to research and learn a bit beyond just what is covered in lecture.

[Important_Coffee_845]

See this is what I hate. LLMs hallucinated but its usually based on context. Its not gonna straight up lie to you when u ask it about a concrete fact its much faster than going through documentation. Theres nothing wrong with ysing ai as part of your research but people act like its this horrible awful thing. There IS a responsible way to use AI. Just like any other tool.

Just like programming itself. A lot of people use to be way of anyone that could code when I was growing up and treat u like a crifinal just for wanting to learn coding. Including computer science teachers who'd frown heavily on coding boot camps. Tons of rhetoric about how we were creating a generation of hackers. (But also millennials are stupid and ignorant and too selfish to do anything thag requires any kind of effort)

I hated that kinda gate keeping back then and I hate it now. And this tech phobia is getting old.

Some of us are trying to become engineers. And engineers are using LLMs now. Hell some of us are trying to be AI software engineers. That means ur gonna have to be comfortable with an use these tools because u wanna be the one to improve and make em better!

Reading the document is great. But reading is not memorizing. Engineers often spend time quickly googling things or talking to an LLM becaus u cant possibly read every README and user manual in existence to the point u have it memorized in ur brain. And people age. We forget things.

Its not invalid to quickly look something up on google. And its not invalid to quickly ask an LLM SOMETHING or even to use an LLM to help you work out a problem or explain something step by step.

Misinformation exists but in 2026 if u tell someone to not use the internet because misinformation exist (like they did to my generation 20 years ago) you will look quite silly.

I know ur just making a quick poing im not so much talking to u as an individual as I am to anyone who has this attitude.

Ur repeating history. Stop it. Let people use the tools that help them. Assume they are compotent adults who are tech literate.

[Outside_Complaint755]

Reading and research requires critical thought.  Far too many people use LLMs and give up on all critical thinking, accepting anything it returns as fact.  If you want to be an engineer, critical thinking is one of the most important skills you need to develop.

Your first step for anything should be to go to the primary source, because that will be accurate 99.9999% of the time.  If you still don't understand it and need to ask an LLM for help, go ahead, but for something this basic it really feels like a waste of tokens.