From: Jared Miller <jtmiller@...>
Date: 2010-10-02T08:33:47+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby, Looking for Help With Basic Program

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Mica, are you going through the book *Learn to Program* by Chris Pine?
That's what I'm going through as well, and he has you do that exact same
program.

puts 'What is the starting year?'

starting = gets.chomp.to_i


> puts 'What is the ending year?'

ending = gets.chomp.to_i


> puts 'Here is your list of leap years!'


> year = starting


> while year <= ending

if year%4 == 0

if year%100 != 0 || year%400 == 0

puts year

end

end

year = year + 1

end

puts 'Done!'



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Jared Miller


On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> wrote:

> On 10/01/2010 03:00 PM, Mica Koizumi wrote:
> > Thank you Jeremy! I changed:
> >
> > if year1.to_i % 4 == 0
> >   leapyear = year1.to_i + 4
> >   puts leapyear
> >
> >  to:
> >
> > if year1.to_i % 4 == 0
> >  year1 = year1.to_i + 4
> >   puts year1
> >
> >
> > and that helped a great deal. I see now that I was not evaluating the
> > incrementation.
> >
> > You guys have been a great help!
>
> I have another suggestion to help simplify your code a bit.  Replace
> these lines:
>
> year1 = gets.chomp
> year2 = gets.chomp
>
> With:
>
> year1 = gets.chomp.to_i
> year2 = gets.chomp.to_i
>
> Now you can drop all the .to_i business elsewhere in this code since
> year1 and year2 will be integers from the beginning.
>
> -Jeremy
>
>

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