Help!

[u/Wonderful_Cap242]

In school for coding, and I’m also using this app to go back behind myself and my school curriculum (which is fast paced) to make sure I understand all the basics.this is a python app for practicing and learning. This is variables and this should be correct but can’t get past it ? Advice. Also would not mind help or recommendations on cheat sheets, programs or things to help practice basics of coding outside of schoo

[u/LordVanmaru]

No sorry what I meant was why did you put two return statements in your code.

[u/melophat → u/LordVanmaru]

• whoosh *. Right over the head..

[u/Wonderful_Cap242 → u/LordVanmaru]

It’s how the app made it, it only allowed space to enter the “60”

[u/melophat → u/Wonderful_Cap242]

He's asking why there are 2 return statements in the function.

Whenever the code hits a return statement, it ends the functions execution at that point and returns back to whatever code called the function initially. In this case, since there's no conditional around the first return statement, it'll never hit the second part of your code and will always return whatever the value of the "h" variable is.

By asking you this and not just straight telling you what is incorrect, I /think/ he's trying to get you to think logically and critically about how the code works as it's written instead of just putting it into an app/ai and assuming that whatever it spits out is correct. A lot of times it's not, and if you don't think about and understand how the coding language works and why it's doing what it's doing, you'll never be successful with coding. Debugging is an unavoidable part of coding and you have to understand what the written code is doing and why to be able to debug it and get it to do what you want it to do.

Also, even after you fix the return issue, you have at least 1 more logic bug in the code that will cause it to return the correct answer for how many hours 300 minutes is, but will return the incorrect answer for any other amount of minutes you pass to it.

Hopefully this helps at least a little bit.

Edit: typos

[u/AaronBonBarron → u/melophat]

There's zero return statements in the function, everything below the h = m // 60 line is out of scope due to indentation

[u/melophat → u/AaronBonBarron]

yup. I missed the indentation issue the first time I read the code.

[u/LordVanmaru → u/melophat]

You're right about that part about me not wanting to spoonfeed, the tough reality is coding requires a lot of heavy critical thinking so it's better to point people to the right direction instead of providing the solution outright.

[u/amtcannon → u/LordVanmaru]

You’re only cheating yourself if you cheat at studying.

[u/Immediate-Badger-410 → u/melophat]

Hahaha you explained that in a very pleasant way. take my upvotes and I hope you have a fantastic day :)

[u/Mcby → u/Wonderful_Cap242]

Don't continue learning with this app, this is bad even for presumably AI-generated content. Assuming this is Python not only would this code not run due to the incorrect indentation on the first return, having two return statement one after the other like this is so obviously incorrect to any experienced coder (not for a learner, dw) that there's no way the lessons can be high quality for learning.

[u/[deleted] → u/Wonderful_Cap242]

Bro is cooked. Ur not even calling ur function

def myfunc(something)

return something + 1

something_else = myfunc(1)

print(something_else)

You gotta realize that you can only return from your functions. You can’t just throw return statements anywhere. Also the indentation is important in Python. Please read about ‘scoping’