Re: [Tutor] Checksum program

2011-03-23 Thread Wayne Werner
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Wayne Werner wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Lezlie Kline > Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Checksum program > To: Wayne Werner > > > Wayne, > > Thanks! That helped tremendo

Re: [Tutor] Checksum program

2011-03-23 Thread Lezlie Kline
Thanks for the links. Yes, I've worked with the tutorials. My work doesn't flow exactly along those lines, but they do help. I'll look up the the group you sent too. I appreciate all the extra effort you went to. Many thanks!!! :) On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:26 PM, taserian wrote: > On Wed,

Re: [Tutor] Checksum program

2011-03-23 Thread taserian
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Lezlie Kline wrote: > I have a question for the list about the homework rule and the tutoring > list. If you have a question and you're not asking for your homework or > past homework to be done for you but you just have questions to be explained > isn't that wha

Re: [Tutor] Checksum program

2011-03-23 Thread Lezlie Kline
I have a question for the list about the homework rule and the tutoring list. If you have a question and you're not asking for your homework or past homework to be done for you but you just have questions to be explained isn't that what tutoring and learning is all about. For example, on my quest

Re: [Tutor] Checksum program

2011-03-23 Thread taserian
When replying to the Python Tutor list, please use "Reply All" instead of just "Reply". I meant to put this in my previous message, but it remained in "meant to" phase and never got implemented properly. 8-) I don't think it's been initialized properly, but that's where I don't understand about t

Re: [Tutor] Checksum program

2011-03-23 Thread michael scott
want, there are cheats to actually make it output this without errors... I hope this helps (^_^) What is it about you... that intrigues me so? From: Lezlie Kline To: tutor@python.org Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 9:09:53 AM Subject: [Tutor] Checksum program

Re: [Tutor] Checksum program

2011-03-23 Thread taserian
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Lezlie Kline wrote: > Tony, > > For your question "What's the checksum for a completely empty message > (i.e., no characters at all)?" Do you mean the value or how do I write it? > I would think the value would be 0. > Correct. Now think of that as your starting po

Re: [Tutor] Checksum program

2011-03-23 Thread Tom Zych
Lezlie Kline wrote: > I'm trying to work out the bugs in a program for calculating the checksum > (modulo 256) of an input string. I'm testing it with my full name and I'm a > beginner with Python. Here's what I have so far. > > def main(): > print"This program creates a checksum for a mess

Re: [Tutor] Checksum program

2011-03-23 Thread taserian
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Lezlie Kline wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to work out the bugs in a program for calculating the checksum > (modulo 256) of an input string. I'm testing it with my full name and I'm a > beginner with Python. Here's what I have so far. > > def main(): > print"Th

[Tutor] Checksum program

2011-03-23 Thread Lezlie Kline
Hi, I'm trying to work out the bugs in a program for calculating the checksum (modulo 256) of an input string. I'm testing it with my full name and I'm a beginner with Python. Here's what I have so far. def main(): print"This program creates a checksum for a message." name=raw_input("Pl