On Aug 7, 8:06 am, Jugurtha Hadjar <jugurtha.had...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/05/2012 09:52 PM, John Mordecai Dildy wrote: > > > NameError: name 'start' is not defined > > > anyone know how to make start defined > > Maybe rename it "defined_start" ;) > > I wonder how someone can get to the point of writing more than 76 lines > of code while not only still making this kind of errors, but not even > knowing what these errors mean and how to correct them. It's impossible. > You can't write programs that are more than 10 lines without having > encountered these errors and learnt how to deal with them. > > Unless you're reading exercises from a book, and feeling that you're > "intermediate", you started reading from chapter 28 in a 29 chapters book. > > -- > ~Jugurtha Hadjar,
If you've ever taught programming in a formal teaching setup, you would not be surprised when students submit C 'projects' that wont even compile (leave aside segfault). On a more personal note, the first program I wrote was in Cobol. I got only 350 errors before the compiler copped out. It was a bit traumatic. Later on I found I forgot to write PROCEDURE DIVISION. So its good to remember how spoilt we are on python that we can test out 10 lines at a time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
