#im new to python and want to learn the basic by solving easy question. thank you

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craggy anchor
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(i don't quite understand what the question wants)

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jagged acorn
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i'm guessing you're writing a function that takes in a single integer (humanYears) and then returns a tuple of three integers, corresponding to:

  1. the input humanYears
  2. the calculated catYears of your cat, and
  3. the calculated dogYears of your dog
arctic sapphire
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christopherfujino seems to be correct. To add on, I would recommend against codewars and coding exercises as a beginner. You are much better off working on projects that interest you instead.

jagged acorn
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oh, this is codewars?

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well skip this one, it's very poorly written

arctic sapphire
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It seems to be

jagged acorn
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yeah, i used to use codewars

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i just thought maybe they had a japanese sensei CS teacher

arctic sapphire
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Same, but projects are more fun and more useful

jagged acorn
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but now i remember codewars calls them kata

arctic sapphire
jagged acorn
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some people find them fun

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i would definitely say this particular one is neither fun nor useful

arctic sapphire
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Okay well maybe the fun is more subjective

jagged acorn
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and useful depends on what your goals are

arctic sapphire
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But objectively, projects are more relevant in the long term

jagged acorn
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i would say this is subjective too 🙂

arctic sapphire
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Haha let's agree to disagree

jagged acorn
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sounds good to me

craggy anchor
jagged acorn
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I don't think it's a well written prompt

arctic sapphire
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You could try it, but I agree it's not very informative

jagged acorn
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and this doesn't seem to model a real world problem very well

craggy anchor
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i have code competition coming on 16th july (my tcr put me into this so i have to learn within short amt of time help)

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its diffcult

jagged acorn
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if the code competition has questions like this, i wouldn't want to win it

craggy anchor
jagged acorn
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let me put it this way, if i were interviewing for a job and they gave me this question, i would re-think if i wanted to work there

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doesn't codewars have like reviews/scores on kata?

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i haven't used it in many years, but i remember liking the platform back then

craggy anchor
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i only use w3school

jagged acorn
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i would just skip the ones that seemed poor quality

arctic sapphire
jagged acorn
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my point is, i think you can level up your data structures and algorithms with codewars, or leetcode, but don't do every single one

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ideally, choose ones that are slightly more difficult than what you can handle

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if you can't even understand what they're asking, i'd just skip it. it's either way too hard...or just poorly written

craggy anchor
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this one seems interesting

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arctic sapphire
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Does that one sufficiently challenge you?