Question

Can anyone help me understand unit 1's problem set 1? the problem set with the whole "enter your bdate of brith, enter your last name?" thanks!

Answer 1

the prob set is called: Introduction to Python and IDLE

Answer 2

The solution has been included, have you compared your code with that? What precisely are you having an issue understanding?

Answer 3

I could not find a solution for this one to compare against but was able to create working code. What is the problem you're having with this set?

Answer 4

I do not understand anything to do with this set. Everytime I type in anything in IDLE, all I get is this invalid syntax message.
I have to type in the question what is your birthdate, and then what is your last name. I typed in both and received the invalid syntax msg. and when I typed in numbers, same thing.

Answer 5

the first thing to do would be to open a file to put your code in. you don't want to type everything in the shell :)
have you watched the lecture video 1 and 2?
there it is explained how to use the raw_input thing

Answer 6

yea i watched the videos and i'm still confuded haha

Answer 7

could you post your code?

Answer 8

ok, this is all I'm typing in:
raw_input "what is your date of birth"

raw_input "what is your last name"

Answer 9

and i get invalid syntax error with that but im not sure what else to do

Answer 10

i understand nothing of this problem set, unfortunately...

Answer 11

you should type something like this

x = float(raw_input('Enter your date of birth: '))
y = raw_input('Enter your last name: ')
print y,x

Answer 12

sorry, without the float its right

Answer 13

thanks so much!

Answer 14

it worked finally haha!

Answer 15

raw_input() is a function. Functions, in most languages, are called with the function name and arguments/parameters inside of parentheses. In this case, the prompt that you want displayed is the argument. Functions can return a value. In this case, what the user types in is returned as a string.

Programming languages are formal languages. In simple terms, a formal language has one way that it works, and everything else is rejected, syntax errors.

Answer 16

I am having some problems getting the output from this problem to display properly. I get the birth date and last name to display, but i can't figure out how to get a space between those two values. Here is my code:

question = "What is your birthdate?"
print (question)
answer = raw_input ()
question1 = "What is your last name?"
print (question1)
answer1 = raw_input ()
print (answer1 + answer)


Thanks!

Answer 17

The two strings, answer1 and answer are "added" together. Do either of them have a space? Probably not. You could also "add" (concatenate) a space between those two strings.

print( answer1 + ' ' + answer )