Re: [Tutor] LCM revisited + OOP

2012-11-27 Thread wrw
On Nov 27, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Ray Jones wrote: > > Part I > I am a good way through MIT's Introduction to Computer Science and > Programming as offered through edX. I'm not certain I'm going to pass > the course this first time through, the major hangup being the > understanding of OOP. > > Part

Re: [Tutor] LCM revisited + OOP

2012-11-27 Thread Ray Jones
On 11/27/2012 07:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > For something as simple as Least Common Multiple? Using a function is > much more sensible than writing a class. > > OOP is for when you have a single data type that needs *state* and > *behaviour*. A LCM function only has behaviour, and so a func

Re: [Tutor] LCM revisited + OOP

2012-11-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 06:13:52PM -0700, Ray Jones wrote: > Part I > I am a good way through MIT's Introduction to Computer Science and > Programming as offered through edX. I'm not certain I'm going to pass > the course this first time through, the major hangup being the > understanding of OOP.

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2012-11-18 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/18/2012 12:50 PM, Andrew wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:52:03 +0200, Selby Rowley Cannon > wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> I've been trying to write a function to find the Lowest Common >> Multiple of two numbers, but it isn't working and I've kinda hit a >> dead end on the thought- >> I hav

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2012-11-18 Thread Andrew
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:52:03 +0200, Selby Rowley Cannon wrote: Hey, I've been trying to write a function to find the Lowest Common Multiple of two numbers, but it isn't working and I've kinda hit a dead end on the thought-process end of things. Anyone mind looking at it, and tell

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2012-11-14 Thread eryksun
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Selby Rowley Cannon wrote: > > I've been trying to write a function to find the Lowest Common Multiple > of two numbers, but it isn't working and I've kinda hit a dead end on the > thought-process end of things. Since the LCM is the smallest multiple of both

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2012-11-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/14/2012 01:34 PM, Selby Rowley Cannon wrote: > On 14/11/12 18:27, Dave Angel wrote: >> On 11/14/2012 12:52 PM, Selby Rowley Cannon wrote: >>> Hey, >>> Tell us what version of Python you're targeting. I'm going to assume 2.x, since you have print without parens. >>> I've been trying to

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2012-11-14 Thread Selby Rowley Cannon
On 14/11/12 18:27, Dave Angel wrote: On 11/14/2012 12:52 PM, Selby Rowley Cannon wrote: Hey, I've been trying to write a function to find the Lowest Common Multiple of two numbers, but it isn't working and I've kinda hit a dead end on the thought-process end of things. Anyone mind looking

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2012-11-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/14/2012 12:52 PM, Selby Rowley Cannon wrote: > Hey, > > I've been trying to write a function to find the Lowest Common > Multiple of two numbers, but it isn't working and I've kinda hit a > dead end on the thought-process end of things. Anyone mind looking at > it, and tell me what's wron

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2010-10-21 Thread Alan Gauld
"Jacob Bender" wrote decided to make a program that deals with them. Here's the code: thing = raw_input("What is the first number?\n\n") thing2 = raw_input("What is the second number?\n\n") int(thing) int(thing2) This does nothing useful. It converts the strings to numbers which are immedi

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2010-10-20 Thread Shashwat Anand
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Jacob Bender wrote: > Hello all, > > I was wondering if you could please help me with an issue I'm having with > my program. I'm not fond of LCM(Least Common Multiples), and I decided to > make a program that deals with them. Here's the code: > > thing = raw_input

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2010-10-20 Thread christopher . henk
benderjaco...@gmail.com wrote on 10/20/2010 07:30:32 PM: > > thing = raw_input("What is the first number?\n\n") > > thing2 = raw_input("What is the second number?\n\n") > > int(thing) > int(thing2) > The two lines above do the calculation of turning your input strings into int's but d