Question

Very first problem set. How do I get the program to print out the birthdate and last name together? Right now I have:
print (raw_input('enter your date of birth'))
print (raw_input('enter your last name'))

Answer 1

Have you read any of the readings?

Answer 2

the wikilinks? I read over those, but am brand new to any and all of this, so I've been struggling to get started.

Answer 3

Which class are you doing? 2008?, 2011?

Answer 4

the 2011 course

Answer 5

Have you read the Tutorial in the python docs? Tried all of the examples?

Answer 6

here are a couple more but maybe start with the Tutorial in the documentation

http://troll.cs.ua.edu/cs150/book/index.html
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/index.html

you are going to need to get used to the documentation and start finding answers.

when you want to reuse the result of a statement, you 'store' it in a variable
```
>>>
>>> a = 2 + 3
>>> b = 2 - 3
>>> print a, b
5 -1
>>>
```

a and b are variables

Answer 7

okay thank you. i'll keep working on it

Answer 8

I did not need to put the print command on the first two strings in order to get it to function

Answer 9

nope ...
it helps if your variable have descriptive names
for short pieces of code or code examples, you can enclose it in 'bacticks' (left of 1 on a qwerty keyboard.)
backticks
code
backticks
```
>>> dob = (raw_input('enter your date of birth'))
enter your date of birth5/5/5555
>>> last = raw_input('enter your last name')
enter your last namefinn
>>> first = raw_input('enter your first name')
enter your first namealva
>>> print first, last, dob
alva finn 5/5/5555
>>>
```

Otherwise please use a code pasting site:

- http://dpaste.com
- http://pastebin.com
- https://gist.github.com/
- http://pastie.org
- http://codepad.org
- http://ideone.com
- http://www.repl.it/

paste your code there and post the link here. select Python syntax highlighting when u paste. ... http://dpaste.com/1406703/