I dont think that this i hard, but I dont understand!

[Yoriz]

Do the tutorial in the python documents.

[Ofnuts]

No I haven't! This is our first "task" :( By commands I mean: How do I write a loop and what does a loop mean? I think that you use + when you add, * when you multiply and / when you divide!

A loop is  as sequence of instructions which is executed several times. It either executed a fixed number of times:

for i in range(5):
   print i

Or executed while some condition is true

i=0
while i<5:
   print i
   i+=1

I'm surprised you are told to write this kind of code without being shown the basics...

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[pythlang]

I understand! I found something similar online, would this be something? 

def ctrapezoidal(f,a,b,n):
   h=(b-a)/n
   s=(f(a)+f(b))*0.5*h;
   for i in xrange(1,n):
       s+=h*f(a+h*i)
   return s

Something like this. However, this is well optimized code, absolutely not the kind of code your teacher would expect from you at this point. So be prepared to be able to explain in excruciating detail how/why this code works (hint: this has more to do with math than with Python, actually).

This response made me laugh so hard..... and while I couldn't reproduce this kind of code on my own either, I understand the math behind what I'm looking at.