Teaching our five year old to code by cheating

Re:Teaching our five year old to code by cheating by Deukhoofd on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @05:35AM (#24706589)

The script you included doesn't actually work, as you're comparing a string with an integer. It will always return false.

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Re:Teaching our five year old to code by cheating by netsharc on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @05:46AM (#24706643)

Huh, did the kid understand that 3 != "3"? I'd be stumped how to explain that...

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Re:Teaching our five year old to code by cheating by jcims on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @05:51AM (#24706681)

Sure give them a cookie and a picture of a cookie.

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Re:Teaching our five year old to code by cheating by shean_massey on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @07:02AM (#24707037)

Epic, I like your analogy!

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Re:Teaching our five year old to code by cheating by gregorymichael on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @03:14PM (#24711596)

So good!

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Re:Teaching our five year old to code by cheating by ThisIsTheWay on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @02:19PM (#24711065)

Brilliant

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Re:Teaching our five year old to code by cheating by ldeangelis on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @08:50AM (#24707639)

I was going to comment the same thing. It can be fixed by addding a conversion in the if like this:

  if int(guess) == lulu + boonie:

instead of

  if guess == lulu + boonie:

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Re:Teaching our five year old to code by cheating by gregorymichael on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:34PM (#24709916)

Thanks for the catch! Should embed a version a REPL that we're not still working on.

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Re:Teaching our five year old to code by cheating by stadt on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @06:04AM (#24706742)

That's the real teachable moment ;P line 9: guess = int(input(question))

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