Hello Everyone,
My name is Dillon Lyons, and I am a Junior in Cybersecurity at Saint Leo University. I chose cybersecurity because I believed it would allow me to “get my feet wet” in coding, as well as get me up to speed with current cyber threats and trends. I have glanced upon both of these topics now and then in my career, but have never had the opportunity to explore them fully. I have taken and thoroughly enjoyed C++ and Java, I am excited to learn this new language. I also have some experience with the logic flow of building queries in SQL—specifically mySQL, which may make some of you shudder from antiquity—which I hope will assist me in this class.
I do not plan to stop at the end of this class, however, as I believe Python has an incredible use case in contemporary intelligence sourcing, which is my trade. I welcome any tips any of you are willing to provide, and I hope to be outputting intelligible products (or at least asking for some assistance on them) soon!
Hello Dillon,
Welcome to the Python forums. Lots of SLU students post intros here (I believe it’s an assignment?) so I copy/paste this reply to give you some basic guidance. I hope you continue to post here when you have Python questions even after your class ends.
This forum is a professional space and we enforce a Code of Conduct. We also have some general forum guidelines.
I highly recommend reading “How to Ask a Good Question” on Stack Overflow for tips on how to efficiently ask effective questions. Often times folks just post, “My program doesn’t work” and their helper (who is providing help for free) has to do the work to ask them questions. It’s much better to provide as much information up front as possible in your first post.
Other vital tips include:
- You should post your Python questions in the Python Help category.
- You should format your code correctly in these forums by having three backtick characters (the backtick key is to the left of the 1 key on the keyboard) on a single line to start the code section, and end if with another set of three backticks on a line. If done properly, it will look like this:
for i in range(10):
print('Hello, world!')
Otherwise, the indentation is lost and it’s impossible to know what your program originally did:
for i in range(10):
print(‘Hello, world!’)
- Be sure to copy and paste the FULL error message (including the traceback and line numbers), or else we don’t know what the actual problem is.
- Write out both what you think the program does and what you intend the program to do.
Good luck on your programming journey!
(Other forum members: feel free to copy/paste this message to other SLU student introductions. Be sure to update the name in the greeting!)