During both the lecture and the recitation, it looked like the lecturers were using two different windows. Can anyone explain that? And I've copied codes in exactly and I still get error signs. Or if it's formatted correctly, I'll press enter and it'll just move to the next line. Can anyone help?

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I also have no idea how to start Problem Set #2, with the credit card balance. Any assistance would be fantastic.

anonymous · Answer

If you are using idle/win, select New from the File menu to open an editing window.  Search Google for how to use idle, there are a number of good hits.

A good place to start is to just write down in words the steps you need to take to solve the problem - don't try to code it, just get the process straight in your head.

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Another good place to start is to to read the Tutorial in the Python documentation and practice all the examples (really practice) - you'll get some ideas from it.  Ditto for the How To Think Like a Computer Scientist reading/book.

anonymous · Answer

and when you star idle just go to File --> New File and there you write the code, which you execute with F5.

anonymous · Answer

Thanks so much! Super helpful :)