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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Method Interactivity

Sebastiaan van Vugt
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Sebastiaan van Vugt
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Should I provide the grade argument myself?

The grade argument has not been provided in this exercise and I'm unsure whether I should provide it. I have written the following in Idle but this isn't accepted:

class Student:
    name = "Sebastiaan"
    grade = 5

    def praise(self):
        print("You inspire me, {}".format(self.name))

    def reassurance(self):
        print("Chin up, {}. You'll get it next time!".format(self.name))

    def feedback(self):
        if self.grade > 50:
            studS.praise()
        elif self.grade < 50:
            studS.reassurance()


studS = Student()
studS.feedback()

Thank you for any help!

1 Answer

Cooper Runstein
Cooper Runstein
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Cooper Runstein
Cooper Runstein
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Your function needs to be passed grade, feedback look closer to this:

def feedback(self, grade):
   #Do stuff
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If I just change this, my answer is still not accepted. Also, I really don't understand how I can pass a "grade" argument that has not been defined. Should I define it somewhere?

Reply after updated feedback: I can somehow not reply to your latest update but that really helped. Thank you. I was unsure where and how to put in the grade info. One more thing though, I noticed I get the same result when leaving out "return" in front of self.praise() and self.reassurance(). Am I correct in thinking that these two returns are superfluous?

Cooper Runstein
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class Student:
    name = "Sebastiaan"

    def praise(self):
        print("You inspire me, {}".format(self.name))

    def reassurance(self):
        print("Chin up, {}. You'll get it next time!".format(self.name))

    def feedback(self, grade):
        if grade > 50:
            return self.praise() #return the result of the function praise if the grade is over 50.
        return self.reassurance() #if the above statement hasn't returned something, return the result of reassurance.


studS = Student()
studS.feedback(70) #will return the result of praise called on the studS instance of the Student class.

From a non coding perspective, you define what a student is with the class Student, then you create an instance called "studS", who has all the qualities of a student. If this student is then given a low grade, you can run the method feedback on the student to see the feedback. Hopefully this makes some sense, let me know if I can clarify anything.