[Python-il] Looking for a little educational project for a Python newbie

[Ori Peleg]

+1, Beni's minesweeper is an awesome exercise, plus it's a ton of fun for
experienced Pythonistas as well (playing with the algorithms).

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Shai Berger <shai at platonix.com> wrote:

> Only a couple of weeks ago, Beni Cherniavsky posted
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/msg/db719a7d44bdff8b
>
> Which is a cool exercise, a game, and looks just perfect for this.
>
> On Monday 01 March 2010, guy keren wrote:
> > when i learned python, i went with what did it to me - ascii games.
> > after preparing the very basic functions to draw a char on a given X,Y
> > position - it was very easy to start writing a program that displays
> > scrolling banners (actually, i used simple carriage-return tricks here),
> > a jumping ball, hangman (using /usr/share/dict/linux.words for the
> > words, having to do file I/O for the word choosing and for the
> > high-score table), ping-pong, basketball and checkers (the last one
> > included AI to play the machine's part - and required doing benchmarking
> > of data structures, in order to make it possible for the machine to
> > calculate more steps).
> >
> > --guy
> >
> > cool-RR wrote:
> > > Sounds okay. I was hoping for something with a more sexy result, but if
> > > there are no other suggestions, I'll take it. Thanks.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Imri Goldberg <lorgandon at gmail.com
> > > <mailto:lorgandon at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     My favorite first exercise for any language is "fnord". For Python
> > >     it's especially fun, because it's very easy to write.
> > >     The idea is simple:
> > >     construct sentences according to templates.
> > >     First version:
> > >     1. Given a list of verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives, construct
> > >     sentences of the form "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective
> > >     adjective noun". (print them).
> > >     2. Read the lists of words from files
> > >     3. Also read a list of templates from a file.
> > >
> > >     I consider this a very good first exercise for any language
> because:
> > >     1. The algorithm is pretty simple, so you mostly practice the
> > >     language itself.
> > >     2. For programming beginners, the algorithm is still very much
> > >     teaching them.
> > >     3. It covers a lot of the basic subjects: simple IO, file IO,
> string
> > >     processing, dictionaries, lists, "executable programs", etc..
> > >     4. It can be extended to teach basic testing using unittest and
> > >     coverage.py.
> > >     5. It can be extended to teach networking.
> > >
> > >     Cheers,
> > >     Imri
> > >
> > >     On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:22 PM, cool-RR <cool-rr at cool-rr.com
> > >     <mailto:cool-rr at cool-rr.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >         Come on, that's just geek crap.
> > >
> > >
> > >         On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Meir Kriheli <
> meir at mksoft.co.il
> > >         <mailto:meir at mksoft.co.il>> wrote:
> > >
> > >             On 02/28/2010 09:20 PM, cool-RR wrote:
> > >
> > >                 Hello,
> > >
> > >                 I am guiding my friend in learning Python. He's a past
> > >                 programmer in
> > >                 other languages, so I gave him Dive into Python. But he
> > >                 tells me he has
> > >                 a problem: He needs more actual exercise for his Python
> > >                 skills. I gave
> > >                 him the Project Euler exercises, which are pretty fun,
> > >                 but they're all
> > >                 about algorithms and he feels he already has that part
> > >                 under control.
> > >
> > >                 So I'm looking for a little educational project to give
> > >                 him to program.
> > >                 Not something of any practical use, it should just be
> > >                 something fun and
> > >                 cool that will let him use many different idioms of
> > > Python.
> > >
> > >                 Does anyone have a suggestion?
> > >
> > >                 --
> > >                 Sincerely,
> > >                 Ram Rachum
> > >
> > >
> > >             Try this:
> > >             http://www.pythonchallenge.com/
> > >
> > >             Cheers
> > >             --
> > >             Meir
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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