[Tutor] Shadowrun programs

[Max Noel]

On Jan 18, 2005, at 17:52, Jack Cruzan wrote:

> Greetings!
> Ok if any of you read my earlier email you would have seen that:
> 	A) I am a newbie programmer.
> 	B) A Shadowrun gamer.
> 	C) In over my head making a SRCG (Shadowrun Character Generator)
> so with that in mind gave up making my python based SRCG. Instead I am
> making python Shadowrun utilities!
> 	The first of which was a program size and cost calculator for decker's
> utilities and skillsofts. (I always hated flipping back and forth in 
> the
> book to figure it out). Thought I would let you see it and maybe
> critique? Be kind its first original program I have written. (Well 
> thats
> not php or shell script).
>

	Doesn't look bad. However, you should aim to repeat yourself as little 
as possible, and the "The program's[...]" string is repeated 4 times. 
You should delay its display until the end of the program, like that:

if rating < 4:
	availability = "2/7"
	cost = rating * 100
# same for other options...
# [skipping to the end of the program]

print "The program's Availability is ", availability, " days and costs 
", cost


	Of course, an even better way is to use string formatting in the print 
line. But that's not really important.

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