dumb newbie questions

[nate]

Yeah thanks guys...

Jonathan Gardner <jgardn at alumni.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<mailman.1011304110.31527.python-list at python.org>...
> > Hope this was slow enough. You seem to have grasped most of the essentials
> > - I guessed you had at least some experience in another programming
> > language, so maybe you're doingt better than you think. Your output code
> > looks OK. See how it goes with these changes.
> >

Actually, I lied about having *no* coding experience.  In first year
at Uni, they gave us a 30 hr course in Fortran 95 (?!?!?) - It bored
me out of my mind and I skipped the lectures and scraped a pass.  How
could I set about getting them to switch to Python?

nate