[Tutor] Fwd: Fw: Traceback

[Danny Yoo]

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From: niyana morgan <niyanaxx95 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Fw: Traceback
To: Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org>


Exercise 1:
def distance(x1, y1, x2, y2):
    dx = x2 - x1
    dy = y2 - y1
    dsquared = dx**2 + dy**2
    result = math.sqrt(dsquared)
    print(result)
    return result

On Nov 18, 2014 7:56 PM, "Danny Yoo" <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:48 PM, niyana morgan <niyanaxx95 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Read the link. So I need to put
> > Return roomWidth and roomLength? ??
>
>
> You may want to practice writing functions that return useful values.
>
> Save the work you've go so far, and then open up a new program.
>
> Go through that link again in:
> http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/thinkpython007.html#toc66
>
> but this time, also do Exercise 1 in that chapter.
>
>     Write a compare function that returns 1 if x > y, 0 if x == y, and
> -1 if x < y.
>
> Do this and show us what it looks like.
>
>
> I'm asking you to do this as side work because, at the moment, you've
> just been exposed to a new thing, and you're tempted to just hack it
> into your original program to make it "work".  This is not the best
> approach.  Instead: practice the new technique on small programs.
> Then once you know what you're doing, you can go back to the original
> problem.