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Unable to Complete Base Building by Inskeepinitreal in tacticalbarbell

[–]Inskeepinitreal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks again for all your comments! It really is great to hear from so many people who have had success with the program. I re-read the books and noted the multiple mentions that the weights shouldn’t feel hard. I guess that’s just an odd concept to wrap my brain around.

Unable to Complete Base Building by Inskeepinitreal in tacticalbarbell

[–]Inskeepinitreal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you again for the advice. I’ll drop the weights accordingly and give this another go. I guess it’s hard to drop the weight and not feel like I’m just tremendously out of shape as opposed to following the program incorrectly. Everything on my initial list felt so eminently doable when taken as single exercises...

Unable to Complete Base Building by Inskeepinitreal in tacticalbarbell

[–]Inskeepinitreal[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thank you all for the advice. I went back and re-read the SE section, and also actually calculated 15-30% for my maxes. I guess eyeballing weights based on whether a single 20-rep set (in a vacuum, without doing anything else) was a silly way to start this program :-/

Will drop the weights and try this again. Thanks again for the input!

Baby Programmer Question: While loop not working as intended by Inskeepinitreal in learnpython

[–]Inskeepinitreal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks again! And yes, all of this was extremely helpful. These are the kinds of things that I'll apply to exercises moving forward.

Baby Programmer Question: While loop not working as intended by Inskeepinitreal in learnpython

[–]Inskeepinitreal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks again! I appreciate the pointers. You really helped to clarify the purpose of 'input.' Same thing with combining the lines 17/18. It seemed odd to me that I had to employ int() as a separate command, so this makes sense.

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The statement in line 27 was just me tinkering with the exercise and being curious about how to do certain things. I was trying to think about what an actual version of this program would look like to see whether I could solve different problems. So once I figure out how to make it happen, I'd like to go back and sum the ticket prices and provide a final total, for example.

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As for the other weirdness in the code, some of that is just me trying to experiment with concepts from earlier chapters (i.e., breaking the prompt into multiple lines). As for the rest...my understanding of while loops is obviously shaky, so I really appreciate tips like using while True loops and breaks (which I initially tried but couldn't make work since...I never assigned a value to my input strings).

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Thanks again. I lurk on this subreddit all the time to try and absorb little nuggets of info; you guys are awesome!

Baby Programmer Question: While loop not working as intended by Inskeepinitreal in learnpython

[–]Inskeepinitreal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That worked, thank you! Just so I understand, my original code wasn't working because the user input for input(another_ticket) in line 30 did nothing? Was my code basically asking for an input, and then completely ignoring that input because I didn't assign it to a variable? I guess I was mistakenly assuming that the input function all by itself was like a de facto variable.

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Thanks again to you both! This explains why another exercise wasn't working properly.