Re: [Tutor] New at Python

2014-10-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 06:40:39PM -0400, Mike Spaulding wrote: > Given that n refers to a positive int use a while loop to compute the sum of > the cubes of the first n counting numbers, and associate this value with > total . Use no >

Re: [Tutor] New at Python

2014-10-05 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Mike Spaulding wrote: > Given that n refers to a positive int use a while loop to compute the sum of > the cubes of the first n counting numbers, and associate this value with > total . Use no variables other than n , k , and total . > > Hi, I am really a rookie at

Re: [Tutor] New at Python

2014-10-05 Thread Alan Gauld
On 05/10/14 23:40, Mike Spaulding wrote: Given that n refers to a positive int use a while loop to compute the sum of the cubes of the first n counting numbers, and associate this value with total . Use no variables other than n , k , and total . lab and the accompanying online book. The big

Re: [Tutor] New at Python

2014-10-05 Thread R. Alan Monroe
> while loop to compute > the sum of the cubes of the first n counting numbers > do you have any suggestions as to how I need to look at a problem > and to “identify” what exactly it is asking for, Can you do it on paper? If I gave you "5" as a starting point, could you write down on your paper 1

[Tutor] New at Python

2014-10-05 Thread Mike Spaulding
Given that n refers to a positive int use a while loop to compute the sum of the cubes of the first n counting numbers, and associate this value with total . Use no variables other than n , k , and total . Hi, I am r