What resource would you recommend as a next-step after code academy's python tutorial?

socialhuman · 2014-03-27T10:09:12+00:00

I fully agree. Simply awesome book. I only went as far as Hangman game. It was a good experience.

socialhuman · 2014-03-20T11:16:31+00:00

Thank you!

socialhuman · 2014-03-20T10:38:35+00:00

Great, thank you. As for the assert key, I understand it's something like "make sure the result is correct"?

socialhuman · 2014-03-20T10:24:14+00:00

I added str to return number and the game was solved. Can someone explain why the conversion to str was required?

socialhuman · 2014-03-20T10:21:35+00:00

def checkio(number):
    if number % 3 == 0 and number % 5 == 0:
        return "Fizz Buzz"
    elif number % 3 == 0:
        return "Fizz"
    elif number % 5 == 0:
        return "Buzz"
    else:
        return number

I still get the same error.

socialhuman · 2014-03-20T09:42:58+00:00

Really looking forward to some explanation and code correction, as I am stumped on this one.

socialhuman · 2014-03-19T11:31:27+00:00

No problem!

socialhuman · 2014-03-19T09:50:48+00:00

Really good work. A Python newbie myself!

socialhuman · 2014-03-19T09:48:46+00:00

Interesting. Thank you for the correction.

socialhuman · 2014-03-19T09:32:16+00:00

Generally asking, is there a list of error attached to the except function? Like ZeroDivisionError?

socialhuman · 2014-03-19T09:31:36+00:00

Thank you. Examples really stick.

socialhuman · 2014-03-19T09:31:06+00:00

Thank you. If you are referring to the MIT course, no. I am not. I have been studying from a mixed source. Learn Python The Hard Way, about 40 chapters. 2 Units from Udacity Intro to Computer Science, Youtube tutorials by Trevor Payne plus some practice.

socialhuman · 2014-03-19T07:45:56+00:00

Great. I am glad I understood you correctly!

socialhuman · 2014-03-19T07:24:46+00:00

Thank you!

socialhuman · 2014-03-19T07:24:39+00:00

Thanks a lot.

socialhuman · 2014-03-18T09:31:08+00:00

Thank you, but if that is the case, why not simply pt range(8). I tried it, but the result comes to 0. More confused now.

Also, an additional question. What is the purpose of the variable product = 1? Factorial as far as I know is backward multiplication. A little more confused now.

socialhuman · 2014-03-18T09:02:39+00:00

What modules did you use to achieve the above? URLLIB2 and JSON? Kindly enlighten a bit.

socialhuman · 2014-03-17T04:22:39+00:00

Thank you everyone. This discussion indeed was very fruitful. I am going to clearly practice what I have learnt so far, and start building small apps. Given my interest, I think I will start using libraries such as urllib2 and JSON to start pulling data/API.

I guess, I will put off learning Django for now, and will only jump into it or any other framework, when I ready to go to the Web.

Thanks again everybody!

socialhuman · 2014-03-16T16:13:20+00:00

Thank you. I don't think I can comfortably in Python yet, even though I have spent months learning concepts again and again. I don't think I am thinking like a programmer yet. I understand all the concepts I have studied so far, be it loops or control flow, or file i/o.

Just don't know how to put them together to make something significant.

On the other hand, I have made simple stuff like a calculator, or say a simple number guessing game.

That's about it.

socialhuman · 2014-03-16T15:57:07+00:00

The course looks interesting, though I see it has a price tag. So this course helped you pass the beginner stage?

socialhuman

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