Help with some python homework...
sjud9227
scottwd80 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 31 01:48:18 EST 2014
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:38:05 PM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:24 PM, sjud9227 <scottwd80 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Thank you so much Chris. However, i'm still a little confused. Doesn't assigning seconds/(60*60) mean that calculating 6*hours will give me 6 hours in seconds? Also, why calculate how many seconds from midnight? wouldn't it just be from the time that you left the house at 6:52? Also, for the life of me I cannot figure out how to make everything display in hh:mm:ss. I realize I'm asking a lot especially do to the fact it's homework but, we are allowed help in class I just don't have class again until next Tuesday. Plus I really do want to learn not just get the answers.
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> First things first: You're using Google Groups, so your lines are
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> Now then.
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> What is your initial seconds? With the code you posted, it's 1, which
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> means you get nothing at all after dividing by (60*60), so you just
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> have a big ol' zero.
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> What you need to do is convert hours into seconds. Is that going to
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> mean multiplying by a big number or multiplying by a very small
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> number? Think about it as something completely separate from
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> programming. What number will you be multiplying by? Now code that.
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> You can calculate the total number of seconds of your run. You can
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> calculate the number of seconds from midnight until 6:52AM. Add the
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> two together and you get the number of seconds from midnight until you
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> get home.
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> The final step, formatting, is pretty straight-forward. Let's suppose
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> I have a number of seconds, say 40000. That represents some number of
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> hours, some number of minutes, and some number of seconds. How many
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> complete hours are there in 40000 seconds? How many seconds are left
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> over? And out of those left-over seconds, how many minutes can you
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> make? How many seconds are left after the minutes are taken out? These
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> questions are all answered by division and modulo operations. You can
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> actually solve this completely separately from the other part of the
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> problem; try answering it for the figure I gave (40000 seconds), then
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> try it for a few other numbers, and see how it goes.
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> ChrisA
Ok cool, I'll try this. Thank you again! Will def sign up for the mailing list too.
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