How to write the Fibonacci Sequence?

Question

I had originally coded the program wrongly. Instead of returning the Fibonacci numbers between a range (ie. startNumber 1, endNumber 20 should = only those numbers between 1

Answer 1

15 minutes into a tutorial I used when learning Python, it asked the reader to write a program that would calculate a Fibonacci sequence from 3 input numbers (first Fibonacci number, second number, and number at which to stop the sequence). The tutorial had only covered variables, if/thens, and loops up to that point. No functions yet. I came up with the following code:

sum = 0
endingnumber = 1                

print "\n.:Fibonacci sequence:.\n"

firstnumber = input("Enter the first number: ")
secondnumber = input("Enter the second number: ")
endingnumber = input("Enter the number to stop at: ")

if secondnumber < firstnumber:

    print "\nSecond number must be bigger than the first number!!!\n"

else:

while sum <= endingnumber:

    print firstnumber

    if secondnumber > endingnumber:

        break

    else:

        print secondnumber
        sum = firstnumber + secondnumber
        firstnumber = sum
        secondnumber = secondnumber + sum

As you can see, it's really inefficient, but it DOES work.