FAQ: Learn Python: Student Becomes the Teacher - Lesson Number One

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Instructions in this exercise is poorly worded.

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Not sure what happened here? exercise was done correctly but threw up a syntax error?

Almost correctly, I was going mad with this exercise. Then I had to get the solution. Im not sure what it was but I was missing the empty brackets. That still doesn’t explains why “homework” is incorrect. You should delete the last commas from tests and then it should be alright.

True, I didn’t know that I should write all their names. I might have an OCD with wordings but it should have said:

" Have the “name” key be the name of EACH students (LIKE, lloyd ‘s name should be "Lloyd" ) and the other keys should be an empty list (We’ll fill in these lists soon!)

or something like this. It confused me few times to the point I wanted to put my keyboard through my screen… :frowning:

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The reason why a syntax error is thrown in the post by @samuelmacintyre92642 that you replied to is due to a missing comma. If you omit the indenation it is more obvious.

lloyd = {"name": "Lloyd""homework": []}
This should be
lloyd = {"name": "Lloyd", "homework": []}

Ideally the trailing commas after the values for ‘tests’ are supplied shoud be removed too.
tests: [],

See answer 2. from this FAQ-

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lloyd={“name”:“Lloyd”,
“homework”:,
“quizzes”:,
“tests”:
}

alice={“name”:“Alice”,
“homework”:,
“quizzes”:,
“tests”:
}

tyler={“name”:“Tyler”,
“homework”:,
“quizzes”:,
“tests”:
}

Double check your comma placement.

The explanation of question is too cursory that reader can’t understand what format should be in values on keys except ‘Name’.

i was very confused with the instruction and after trying for 15-20 mins i decided to view the solutions. I thought it was just me who didn’t understand the instruction!

Hi - Can someone help me understand why it keeps throwing off error? It says that: your code threw a “global name ‘lloyd’ is not defined error”. I don’t quite understand what’s wrong with my code. Thank you!

Check the spelling of your three global objects’ names. Suggest change to lowercase.

Hello - thanks for the advice. I changed everything to lower case and now getting another error instead:
“The name key does not have the value “Lloyd” in your lloyd dictionary”

I thought the instruction was to have the name key with the student name’s first letter to be capitalized. I really hate this exercise. very confusing.

i figured it out and have updated the code to make the name key in the curly bracket in capital for the first letter. Thanks!

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You’re welcome. Good job!

I agree. The instruction is poorly worded and I have no idea this is their requirement for the ‘name’ key. They could have made the instructions easier to be understood.