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2:48Here's how I did it!
How was it?
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Were you amazed at how soon you'll
hit one of these milestones?
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I know a couple caught me off guard.
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Let's see how I broke this one down.
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First, I got to get that name.
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That's simple enough.
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Just ask for their name and
start on the variable.
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We've all done that.
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So getting the year they were
born could be a bit trickier.
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We have to make sure
they gave us a number.
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Now, I'm going to use a while loop, and
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then I will have a try and
accept inside of it.
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Now there is probably a more clever way to
solve this especially using something like
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strings is numeric method.
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But I don't mind doing things that
a bit more spelled out like this.
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It definitely shows you
exactly what is going on.
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So now that I have the year they were
born, I can figure out how old they are.
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I am going to do that by setting
the current year to a variable.
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Now that does mean I'm going to have
to update the script next year,
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but whatever, that's fine.
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By then, I'll probably know
a better way of doing this.
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Right now when I'm recording this,
it is the year 2017.
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So that is what I am going to put for
current year.
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If you're watching this in the future,
hi, and I hope things turned out well.
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Then to get their age,
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roughly, I'm going to subtract their
birth year from the current year.
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This doesn't really account for their
birthday if it's passed yet or not, but
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it's close enough for what we are doing.
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Now I have to figure out when they
are going to turn a particular age.
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To do that I can take whatever age
it is that I want to know when they
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are going to turn.
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I can subtract form
that their current age.
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And again, there is probably
a more clever way of doing this.
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But then I'm going to add
it to the current year.
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So to figure out when somebody
if going to turn 25 for example,
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I take 25 minus their current age and
then I add that to the current year.
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So, if they were say 30, this is going
to give me negative 5 which means
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that current year is
going to be before 2017.
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And we're going to use
that in just a minute.
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So I have all the dates that I need.
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Now I just need to print things out.
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I'll use an if to make sure that each
year is greater than the current year.
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And if it is, then I'll print
out the message to the user.
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So here's what that looks like.
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If turn 25 is greater than current year,
print out something.
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Turn 50, so on and so forth.
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It's time to try this one out.
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So we'll do python age_calc.py.
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You can call me Kenneth.
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And I was born in 1981.
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So there we go.
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I didn't get the 25
because I'm past that one.
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But I still got 50, 75, and 100.
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Nice.
I hope you liked this
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