Question

hey, I suck at this. Did anyone have difficulty with problem set 1?

Answer 1

What problem are you having?

Answer 2

yeah everyone but you get through it :)

Answer 3

Jason, Joz1 is wrong, I had trouble with it, too. I did find a way to get the primes, well explained. But then ran out of time : ( http://pythonism.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/looking-at-prime-numbers-in-python/ Did you figure out how to get to the 1,000th prime?

Answer 4

good site sueneu :)

Answer 5

http://openstudy.com/?F758053632803SUFUPP=_#/updates/4ede1c7de4b05ed8401a798e

Answer 6

Thanks, den2042 and kiddo.jules I understood this answer: http://dpaste.com/667067/ after I drew a flow chart of it in my notebook.

Answer 7

lol I wasn't wrong!

You confirmed what I said LOL

Really, who breezed through this question? No-one, that is who.

Answer 8

that's the thing with MIT: they teach you something elementary like the so-called 'primitives' and the basic control flow structures, and then immediately ask you to prove Newton's second law of thermodynamics or something :-P

Answer 9

Looks like I have to do some more reading on python to understand how to properly code, thanks for the help everyone, much appreciated