Finally finished

I finally finished chapter six. The exercises in Ch. 6 were really hard for me. Hopefully I'my just not used to thinking with computer programming and will get better with time and practice. 

???

I wrote this for the num_even_digits function
        count = 0
        while n:
            n = n/10
            if n % 2 == 0:
                count = count + 1
        return count

but whenever I doctest it, it says
File "ch06draft.py", line 7, in __main__.num_even_digits
Failed example:
    num_even_digits(1357)
Expected:
    0
Got:
    1





why?

Ch. 6 Exercises

These are the ch. 6 exercises, http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgc44sfk_90vqxx8qfs

interesting...

after playing around with the sequence(n) function from ch. 6,
I found that sequence(5/9) creates an infinite loop of zeros. I just thought that was interesting...

What I've learned so far

Everything I've learned so far has been completely new to me, I've learned:

• the basics of how to use vim and python.
• about values, variables, types, statements, expressions, and the various operators and basic functions.
• about function definitions, parameters, and arguments.
• about boolean values and expressions and functions and logical operators.
• about the "if", "else", and "elif" operators and conditionals.
• the difference between "print" and "return".
• about converting types and the very basics of using GASP.
• about developing programs and program composition.
• about boolean functions and function types.
• (and finally) about using triple quotes and doctesting.
  

I have found the chapter exercises very beneficial in helping me better understand and utilize what I've learned and also gained a lot of experience debugging my programs. I have no idea what what to expect from the chapters ahead, but I'm sure I'll learn a lot and become a much more knowledgeable programmer.

1st Quarter Experience

I didn't really know what to expect from How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, but I have been a little surprised by what I've learned so far. With every knew chapter I see the relationship between what we've learned in the earlier ones. It all fits together very nicely, but I still don't really know where we're going. I've got the first puzzle pieces fitted together, but I don't know what the big picture looks like yet.

Ch. 5 Exercises

These are the ch.5 exercises, http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgc44sfk_74hhjrf3d4

It took me awhile to write the function def for f2c, but that was mostly b/c I didn't quite understand how to use the "round" function. I also came across a few errors that I had no explanation for, but I found that they were mostly syntax errors. Hopefully, overtime I will become more accustomed to spotting syntax errors and eventually be able avoid then entirely.