[Tutor] guess-my-number programme

[Emile van Sebille]

On 9/23/2011 12:25 PM ADRIAN KELLY said...
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> can anyone explain the *tries * part of this programme to me i know its
> meant to count the number of guesses made by the user by adding 1 but i
> just cant figure out how it does this..........can someone explain??
> i.e. tries = 1, tries +1 etc.... cant get my head around it...
>

tries = tries + 1

This simply increments tries by one each time through the loop.  So the 
first time through it takes on the value 2, then 3, then 4, etc.

Emile