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I have not used your particular book. Many of the books I have used
have a paragraph in the introduction which tells about the web site
of the publisher/author. There, you can usually find the author's
sample code, so that you can compare yours to his/hers using diff.<br>
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On 05/15/2011 02:58 PM, jacob wrote:
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<div>Louis,</div>
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<div>Here is a rough idea of how you can figure this stuff out:</div>
1. Read what you wrote. Do you understand it? If not rewrite it.
Don't write stuff you don't understand
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2. If you have an error message read it. Compare the message
to the code.</div>
<div>3. If you don't understand the problem - google it</div>
<div>4. search <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://stackoverflow.com">stackoverflow.com</a> </div>
<div>5. use a debugger - or in languages with a REPL use the
evaluation loop</div>
<div>5. post a question to stackoverflow or a python dev list -
be clear and concise</div>
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<div>Also specifically with python, verify your whitespace is
correct for your control structures. It isn't optional.</div>
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<div>-jacob</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM,
Louis Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div><font size="2"> I'm working on the fourth
program from the "Learn Python the Hard Way" book.
It isn't working, right. In learning to program,
can you get someone else to help debug the
programs, or to see that you typed everything
correctly, or are you supposed to be all on your
own? If it is not inappropriate to get help with
this, then how would I go about finding someone
online? Maybe, there is a program that compares
lines of text, automatically, that you can use?</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Louis</font></div>
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