It will also be helpful if you tell us your OS and Python Version. Can you also tell us if you are writing the code to a file and executing, using IDLE or some other IDE, or are you using the interpreter interactively?
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Amy Davidson <amydavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hey Danny, > > I just started taking the course (introduction to Computer Science) on last > Tuesday, so I am not to familiar. I have been doing my best to understand > the material by reading the text book, Learn Python the hard way. > > In my quest to answer the question given to me, I have searched the internet > high and low of other functions thus, I am familiar with the basic knowledge > of them (i.e. starting with def) as well as examples. > > We can attempt the approach to the method that you prefer. > > Thans for helping me, by the way. > On Jan 10, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Danny Yoo <d...@hashcollision.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Keith Winston <keithw...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Amy, judging from Danny's replies, you may be emailing him and not the >>> list. If you want others to help, or to report on your progress, >>> you'll need to make sure the tutor email is in your reply to: >> >> Hi Amy, >> >> Very much so. Please try to use "Reply to All" if you can. >> >> If you're wondering why I'm asking for you to try to recall any other >> example function definitions, I'm doing so specifically because it is >> a general problem-solving technique. Try to see if the problem that's >> stumping you is similar to things you've seen before. Several of the >> heuristics from Polya's "How to Solve It" refer to this: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It >> >> If you haven't ever seen any function definition ever before, then we >> do have to start from square one. But this would be a very strange >> scenario, to be asked to write a function definition without having >> seen any previous definitions before. >> >> If you have seen a function before, then one approach we might take is >> try to make analogies to those previous examples. That's an approach >> I'd prefer. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor