Beginner Programmer Question

[Tim Chase]

> bigone = 100
> 
> number = input("Whats the first number?")
> number2 = input ("Whats the second number?")
> nu3 = number+number2
> while nu3 < bigone:
>     print ("Not there yet, next number please")
> 
> print "Finally there!"
> 
> thats what i thought maybe it was...but after the first two numbers it
> just continually scrolls on the screen with finally there

Gaak!  it's doing exactly what you told it to do! Bad program! :)

Inside the loop it neither
1) gets further input from the user nor
2) reassigns/sums nu3

Thus, neither of the elements of your condition (nu3 < bigone) 
change, so you're stuck in an infinite loop of printing "not 
there yet..."

Here's some sample code that works and does about what you 
describe.  Tweak accordingly. :)

total = 0
target = 3600
values = [
     82, 69, 87, 83, 78, 65, 0, 89, 83, 85, 79, 76, 0, 83, 73,
     72, 84, 0, 83, 65, 87, 0, 84, 79, 71, 0, 41, 0, 76, 76,
     65, 0, 68, 78, 65, 0, 78, 79, 72, 84, 89, 80, 14, 71, 78,
     65, 76, 14, 80, 77, 79, 67, 0, 78, 79, 0, 78, 79, 73, 84,
     83, 69, 85, 81, 0, 75, 82, 79, 87, 69, 77, 79, 72, 0, 65,
     0, 68, 69, 75, 83, 65, 0, 41
     ]

while total < target:
     # still haven't found the value
     value = values.pop() # so we get another number
     print chr(value+32), #h have a little fun
     total += value #accumulate our total
     # and do it until we've accumlated more than target
print "Hey...we're over %s" % target


-tkc