[Courses] [python] Lesson 2: Loops, if, and beer

[Hanford Sally]

Thanks for this enjoyable course, Akkana.


> 1. Your first programming assignment!
>   Write a program for the old "bottles of beer" song.
>


>   for i in range(99,0,-1):
>   if i ==1:
>     print i,"bottle of beer on the wall,",i,"bottle of beer"
>   else:
>     print i,"bottles of beer on the wall,",i,"bottles of beer"
>
>

> 2. What does range(0, 10, -1) give?  (Try it.)
>
>
[] I think the largest positive integer must come first in the range if we
are going to decrement. (can the range statement handle negative numbers? -
from my tests I think not.)

>
> 3. How was the length of this lesson? Too much, too little or just right?
>
I thought the length was ok. I needed to finish it by midnight (BST) and
started about 11.15pm, but I am switching to another window to finish some
video re-encodes for work, so can't really judge how long it should really
take. I'm also having to refresh my memory about how to use vi as it's ages
since I last used it.

>
> 4. Write a loop using range() that prints out the first five numbers as
> words:
>

for i in range(1,6):
  if i==5:
    print "five"
  elif i==4:
    print "four"
  elif i==3:
    print "three"
  elif i==2:
    print "two"
  else:
    print "one"


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