[Tutor] Creating To Do List Program - Question

[Dominik George]

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Rafael Knuth <rafael.knuth at gmail.com> schrieb:
>Hej there,
>
>@Alan @Joel:
>I didn't know that pouring corn on newbies is the purpose of a tutor
>mailing list.
>Why don't you try writing a program instead? Why don't you use the cat
>interpreter instead?
>I tried my best and that's what I came up with, and I am eager to
>learn form experienced programmers - step by step at my own pace and
>in my own manner. Hence, I find your responses arrogant,
>self-righteous and discouraging.
>
>I do not understand why you don't consider what I wrote not a program
>("Hello World!" in a more elaborate form), as the user is actually
>able to a list, to write to and reads from it (in a very primitive
>manner though).  Can anyone explain? However, I find that hint to
>learn to use SQLite - thank you for that.
>
>All the best,
>
>Rafael
>
>Rafael
>
>
>
>
>On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
>wrote:
>> On 29/09/13 21:42, Rafael Knuth wrote:
>>
>>> iteration. I know my program is super cheesy & primitive, but I
>don’t
>>> care, it does what I expect it to do,
>>
>>
>> Really? You wrote a program that printed out a different
>> program to the one you ran and that's what you wanted?
>> It doesn't do anything about creating a ToDo list.
>> It doesn't even bring you any closer to creating a ToDo list.
>>
>> Now, if instead of just printing it you actually ran
>> the code you print it might actually get you somewhere
>> closer.
>>
>> But at the moment your program is exactly equivalent to
>>
>> print('Hello world')
>>
>> except more verbose in its message.
>>
>>
>>> print("""
>>>
>>> Welcome World's Most Geeky To Do List Program
>>>
>>> G E E K L I S T  1 . 0
>>>
>>> If you want to add items to the list, enter:
>>>
>>> text_file = open("ToDoList.txt", "w")
>>> text_file.write("add your item here ")
>>> text_file.write("add action item here ")
>>> text_file.write("you get the point, right?")
>>> text_file.close()
>>>
>>> If you want to print your to do list, enter:
>>>
>>> text_file = open("ToDoList.txt", "r")
>>> print(text_file.read())
>>> text_file.close()
>>>
>>> We are constantly improving our program, watch out for version 2.0!
>>>
>>> """)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alan G
>> Author of the Learn to Program web site
>> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos
>>
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Hi Rafael,

it's not your program - it's your attitude. We expect you to learn for yourself as well, and putting the commands you output into a script and execute it clearly isn't beyond what we can expect from someone who can use a mail program.

This attitude even shows in your last mail - you accuse Alan and Joel, then quote *my* bad behaviour, blaming them for it.

You are welcome here, but please always make at least an educated guess about your problem.

- -nik
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