Question

exercise 2 of the first session gives me a "name error" stating that "x" is not defined. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Can you paste you code on dpaste or pastebin, or copy it here and put a ``` above and below it? The ` is on the same key as ~.

That does code highlighting and allows peoper retention of tabs or spaces.

Answer 2

There is a chance that you are defining/declaring the variable in wrong location, and if you want exact answer you should paste the code here

Answer 3

I tried to paste it here, but I couldn't even do that! 34*x^2 + 68*x - 510 is problem 2, but as soon as I hit enter I get that error.

Answer 4

Well, did you define x as something?

Answer 5

I guess that's what I need to do. Now I really feel stupid!

Answer 6

What does the Bump button do?

Answer 7

Push a question back up to the top.

As for feeling stupid, a stupid person does not know when they need to ask for some help, so you are not stupid. =) You just did not know what it meant. Until you learn it, you are just uninformed, not stupid.

Answer 8

Thanks to everyone for the help. Doing this at work so don't have time to study the site. how do i give medals?