<div>Louis,</div><div><br></div><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<div><div>
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 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><div><br></div><div>Also specifically with python, verify your whitespace is correct for your control structures. It isn't optional.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-jacob</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Louis Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:veganguy@canadaseek.com">veganguy@canadaseek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2">Hello,</font><div><font size="2"><br></font></div>
<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>
<div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Louis</font></div><br> <br><hr>Get email for your site ---> <a href="http://www.canadaseek.com" target="_blank">http://www.canadaseek.com</a></div>
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