🔒 Task 1 help

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@inland geyser

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[inland geyser]

Heres my code

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[sweet python]

and what u need help with ?

[inland geyser]

I plugged in 20 and 5 but it doesnt give the same result the professor has shown us in the assignment's directions

[inland geyser]

Here are the instructions for task 1 btw

The examples don't look right when I pasted it on disc, heres a screenshot of it

[noble wharf]

so first, walk through your code using the exapmle that doesnt work, 20 and 5

whats the first if statement doing?

[inland geyser]

So first I try to intialize my variables for the while loop

ignore the print statement

[noble wharf]

yeah but the first if statement you run into is this

    if add_stories%2 == 0:
        return 0

[inland geyser]

Im confused, what's wrong with it?

We were told to return 0 if we divided by it

[noble wharf]

thats a modulus its checking if the remainder of a division by 2 is 0

[inland geyser]

Oh

hm...

Well how do I fix that?

Should an if statement saying is pausesTaken == 0, return 0?

[noble wharf]

yeah

so thats one problem solved

[inland geyser]

Alright so now we gotta fix the while loop

[noble wharf]

yeah so what does the while loop do in each cycle of the loop

[inland geyser]

For some reason it returns nothing

But im trying to figure out where I went wrong.

[noble wharf]

yeah so count+=1 is good that makes sense, but then add_stories//2, you're just dividing add_stories by 2 but youre not storing the result anywhere

and lastly keep in mind that when you return count that stops the loop early

if you change those 2 lines it should be fixed

[inland geyser]

alright so I'll have to remove the return command then?

[noble wharf]

you have to move it so its not stopping the loop the first time the loop is run and only returning once count is the correct answer

[inland geyser]

Im gonna take a break and eat breakfast

[noble wharf]

alright good luck

[spark lark]

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