wow!...thanks for both replies..and yes you are right, he comes from a world of C and java...i have successfully "brainwashed" him to try out coding in python...haha. So he has written his first program in python and i have roughly toook a glance at it and saw what he did.. i pointed out his "mistakes" but couldn't convince him otherwise. Anyway , i am going to show him your replies.. thanks again.
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