On Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:38:05 PM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:24 PM, sjud9227 <scottw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thank you so much Chris. However, i'm still a little confused. Doesn't > > assigning seconds/(60*60) mean that calculating 6*hours will give me 6 > > hours in seconds? Also, why calculate how many seconds from midnight? > > wouldn't it just be from the time that you left the house at 6:52? Also, > > for the life of me I cannot figure out how to make everything display in > > hh:mm:ss. I realize I'm asking a lot especially do to the fact it's > > homework but, we are allowed help in class I just don't have class again > > until next Tuesday. Plus I really do want to learn not just get the > > answers. > > > > First things first: You're using Google Groups, so your lines are > > unwrapped and your quoted text is double spaced. Please fix this every > > time you post (which requires some fiddling around) or switch to a > > client that works. I recommend using the mailing list instead: > > > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > > Now then. > > > > What is your initial seconds? With the code you posted, it's 1, which > > means you get nothing at all after dividing by (60*60), so you just > > have a big ol' zero. > > > > What you need to do is convert hours into seconds. Is that going to > > mean multiplying by a big number or multiplying by a very small > > number? Think about it as something completely separate from > > programming. What number will you be multiplying by? Now code that. > > > > You can calculate the total number of seconds of your run. You can > > calculate the number of seconds from midnight until 6:52AM. Add the > > two together and you get the number of seconds from midnight until you > > get home. > > > > The final step, formatting, is pretty straight-forward. Let's suppose > > I have a number of seconds, say 40000. That represents some number of > > hours, some number of minutes, and some number of seconds. How many > > complete hours are there in 40000 seconds? How many seconds are left > > over? And out of those left-over seconds, how many minutes can you > > make? How many seconds are left after the minutes are taken out? These > > questions are all answered by division and modulo operations. You can > > actually solve this completely separately from the other part of the > > problem; try answering it for the figure I gave (40000 seconds), then > > try it for a few other numbers, and see how it goes. > > > > ChrisA
Ok cool, I'll try this. Thank you again! Will def sign up for the mailing list too. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
