I've been teaching myself the python language over the past few months using Mark Lutz' Learning Python, 3ed. Python is also the first programming language I've ever taken up. I find the language easy to learn and rather productive in relation to the introductory course on C ++ I'd begun in January for fun @ school (we're practicing dynamic arrays using pointers... kill me now). My problem, however, is that I found myself lacking problems with which to create solutions and so practice what I've learned. I think I'm one of those people who really get into something when the instructions come from without.
So I'd like to ask you resident python gurus to help me learn. Give me something to do! Specifically, I'd like to be given tasks that incrementally increase in difficulty, starting from simple file/text manipulation to those harder things like built-in function overloading (you know, where you can make the "+" operator do something different in relation to a given object). I hope my request doesn't come off as demanding, as perhaps we could archive these tasks for future pedagogy. If something like this already exists though, please point me in the right direction. Otherwise, thanks for any and all assistance. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
