Question

Hi everyone,
I'm attempting Problem Set 0 on the 2011 course... can someone please give me some help with Problem 1? Thank you!

Answer 1

The way I did it was using raw input and storing each input into a variable. Name and date as two variables and then stored each on another variables, x and y as raw_input. Then printed x + y.
Please let me know if you understand or need clarification.

Answer 2

what language?

Answer 3

Thank you @irvang ! You really helped me out :)
Python 2.5.4 @magepker728

Answer 4

hmm java only sorry

Answer 5

Anytime. Glad I could help :)

Answer 6

It's all good! I'm just starting to learn; hopefully I can get some Java under my belt soon @magepker728

Answer 7

good luck and i wish you all the best :D

Answer 8

I am probably way too late on answering this one, but I struggled through this first problem set as well. The Python books I had on-hand didn't do a great job explaining the basic loop info and a lot of the stuff that seemed like it should have worked, errored out.

I have very little programming experience so this could be wrong. However, both produced what appears to be a correct final output.

Here is what I came up with:

The first solution I created was a basic straight line program that didn't loop back in the event of an incorrect dob entry:

y = int (raw_input('Please enter your date of birth (mmddyyyy): '))
x = raw_input('Please enter your last name: ')
print x, y

The second solution I came up with codes a loop into the program which accounts for users entering less than the requested 10 digit dob.

y = raw_input('Please enter your date of birth (mm/dd/yyyy): ')
if len(y) != 10:
y = raw_input('Please enter your date of birth (mm/dd/yyyy): ')
if len(y) == 10:
x = raw_input('Please enter your last name: ')
print x, y

Happy coding :)