Anyone else here finding John Guttag book finger exercises hard to crack.

[pritesh]

Hi,
I've written scripts in the past that would login to various storage devices and gather outputs. I have also written reporting scripts.
So while I am not exceptionally talented, I can get the stuff working.
I've however been at wit's end with the finger exercises in John Guttag's book. I'm a working professional so cannot devote a big chunk of time everyday. Just trying to do as much as I can every day.

I am at chapter two, and the exercises (finger exercises as they are referred to in the book) are damn hard to crack. Thing is, it's tough to crack them just using the concepts taught right before the exercises. Cannot use arrays, cannot use for loops till this point because those concepts are still not taught.

Is anyone else in a similar quandary here?
Is there a place where the answers to the finger exercises are given?

[Larz60+]

Knowing the nature of the man, I'm not surprised.
For quick and dirty, try: http://automatetheboringstuff.com/
for on line course see: https://www.python-course.eu/
Also please check the tutorials version on this site: https://python-forum.io/Forum-Tutorial-R...ubmissions
and the python resources page: https://python-forum.io/Forum-Tutorial-R...ubmissions

I also took one of his courses, and at the time, MIT had at least selected answers to some of the material. Have you tried to google
for the answers?

[pritesh]

Knowing the nature of the man, I'm not surprised.
For quick and dirty, try: http://automatetheboringstuff.com/
for on line course see: https://www.python-course.eu/
Also please check the tutorials version on this site: https://python-forum.io/Forum-Tutorial-R...ubmissions
and the python resources page: https://python-forum.io/Forum-Tutorial-R...ubmissions

I also took one of his courses, and at the time, MIT had at least selected answers to some of the material. Have you tried to google
for the answers?

Hi,
Thanks for taking time to reply. Yes, I did google, but couldn't find much. I am actually frustrated that I am not able to solve those finger exercises. It's beyond me how I could write scripts earlier...may be it was a fluke. :D

[Larz60+]

what's one of the exercises causing grief?