How to?

[krimble]

Hello, i'm learning python, python is my first programming language.
Owkee here's the question: I need to make an agenda but i don't know where to start. (build a program that puts all the days in a dictionary, the keys are yyyy - mm - dd, the values is empty list for the appointments.
(I'm not allowed to use functions, or other fancy stuff. I'm just past for loops so I can use for loops).

I don't want a full script that is fully working, but I want to know how to start with the agenda script.

Thank you,

 

[Trevoke]

not allowed to use functions" ? Sounds suspiciously like homework to me!

Consider :
- do you need to store the data in a file?
- Can you create a for loop with a condition that ends depending on when the user wants?
- You need to search a date and write to a date, maybe even modify a particular appointment.

I don't want to say more.. If it is homework, you should have the tools needed at your disposal, though you may need to be a bit inventive with them.

"That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX."
"Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive."
-- Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"

 

[krimble]

thanks for the reply,

Well it's somekind of homework, I work as a modeler\animater in a virtual reality lab. And they have asked me to learn python. So they give me a map with information about python and some problems to solve, one of the problems is programming a agenda.

The exact problem is:
Create a program that puts all the days of 2007 in a dictionary, the keys are yyyy - mm - dd. The values is empty list to store the appointments in later.

Well the problem goes on and on: store at every saturday "day off", create a vacation period, etc etc