Benoit wrote: > 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).
Get a better teacher, if you can. Please do me a personal favor: Don't hold the crappy course against C++. For the record, you should never have to manage dynamically allocated arrays manually, nor store pointers to them. Try the std::vector template, and post in comp.lang.c++ if have any trouble. > 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. Happy hacking! http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
