Re: [Tutor] New to Python, Already Confused

2016-09-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:01:30PM +, Gampper, Terry wrote: > Hello > I started my journey with Python last week and find it to be an > easy-to-learn language. I am currently teaching introduction to > computer programming. One of the assignments we are working on > involves an instructor gi

Re: [Tutor] New to Python, Already Confused

2016-09-20 Thread Joel Goldstick
You should probably convert scores to ints on input. At any rate, here is your problem: low_tscore = min(tscore1,tscore2,tscore3,tscore4,tscore5) You need to convert tscore1, etc. to ints, otherwise min will give lexical comparison (alphabetic order), not numeric order On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 7

[Tutor] New to Python, Already Confused

2016-09-20 Thread Gampper, Terry
Hello I started my journey with Python last week and find it to be an easy-to-learn language. I am currently teaching introduction to computer programming. One of the assignments we are working on involves an instructor giving a series of 5 tests, and the lowest score is dropped, then calculatin