writing a program

•

What is DaniWeb IT Discussion Community?

You're currently browsing the Python section within the Software Development category of DaniWeb, a massive community of 427,223 software developers, web developers, Internet marketers, and tech gurus who are all enthusiastic about making contacts, networking, and learning from each other. In fact, there are 2,272 IT professionals currently interacting right now! Registration is free, only takes a minute and lets you enjoy all of the interactive features of the site.

Join our community!

Please support our Python advertiser: Programming Forums

Thread Tools Display Modes

Views: 313 | Replies: 4

•

Join Date: Jul 2008

Posts: 4

Reputation: flagrl is an unknown quantity at this point

Rep Power: 0

Solved Threads: 0

flagrl

Offline

Newbie Poster

writing a program

Jul 23rd, 2008

when you are writing a program and you get an errer do you have to start all over again or is it ok to go on. i am just writing some of the programs that are on this site in the sticky's i am writing them in the command line but also in IDLE? which one is better to use

•

Join Date: Jun 2008

Location: Ireland

Posts: 17

Reputation: Epic Tissue is an unknown quantity at this point

Rep Power: 1

Solved Threads: 0

Epic Tissue Epic Tissue is offline

Offline

Newbie Poster

Re: writing a program

Jul 23rd, 2008

If you define a function properly and then go to use it and get an error while using it (a typo or something), you don't have to define the function again.

•

Join Date: Jun 2008

Location: Fort Lauderdale - Florida

Posts: 19

Reputation: Scuppery is an unknown quantity at this point

Rep Power: 1

Solved Threads: 0

Scuppery

Offline

Newbie Poster

Re: writing a program

Jul 23rd, 2008

•

Originally Posted by flagrl

when you are writing a program and you get an errer do you have to start all over again or is it ok to go on. i am just writing some of the programs that are on this site in the sticky's i am writing them in the command line but also in IDLE? which one is better to use

Ok here is what you need to know when it comes to writing a program IDLE is 100 times better than the command line. Yet, when it comes to running a program they look better in the command line. There are a couple of ways to run your program again so here are some scenarios using a very simple program that converts Celsius to Fahrenheit.

If you open the python interpreter(IDLE) you can write a simple program and run it. Here is the program that converts Celsius to Fahranheit

 Help with Code Tags 
 Python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
def C2F():
	Celsius = input("Enter degrees in Celsius: ");
	Fahrenheit = (9.0 / 5.0) * Celsius + 32
	print Celsius, "Celsius =", Fahrenheit, "Fahrenehit";
def C2F():
	Celsius = input("Enter degrees in Celsius: ");
	Fahrenheit = (9.0 / 5.0) * Celsius + 32
	print Celsius, "Celsius =", Fahrenheit, "Fahrenehit";

This is a very simple program that you can run over and over by just typing C2F() (keep in mind that you must have already written then program to run it. Trust me I've seen some weird cases). So basically all you need to is define a function and write your program so that you can keep running it over and over . Hopefully that helped you and good luck programming.

•

Join Date: Dec 2006

Posts: 232

Reputation: ssharish2005 is on a distinguished road

Rep Power: 2

Solved Threads: 18

ssharish2005 ssharish2005 is offline

Offline

Posting Whiz in Training

Re: writing a program

Jul 23rd, 2008

•

Originally Posted by Epic Tissue

If you define a function properly and then go to use it and get an error while using it (a typo or something), you don't have to define the function again.

Well, why dont you get a good IDE and start coding in there. I IDE which I have been using is pyscripter. Thats a cool IDE with lots of updates now and then.

ssharish