On Jul 31, 1:32 pm, fprintf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been playing with computers since I first learned to program > moving shapes on an Atari 800XL in BASIC. After many years of dabbling > in programming languages as a hobbyist (I am not a computer scientist > or other IT professional), I have never found a way to stick with a > language far enough to do anything useful. I learn all about loops > and data structures and functions/methods etc. but never get to create > a program that will do anything of value that I can't more easily do > via freeware. Well, except the slot car timing system I wrote in C++ > for Linux many moons ago. > > Honestly Python seems like a breath of fresh air and possibly a way to > get back to my BASIC roots, you know, programming just for the fun of > it. > > Since I don't have a specific problem to solve, besides > Pythonchallenge (which I found very cryptic), and Project Euler (which > I found beyond my mathematics skills), is there a place to go for > increasingly difficult problems to solve? I have followed a number of > the recommended online tutorials that contain a logical progression of > problems and yet they all end at the point where a person has enough > knowledge of the syntax, but not really enough to do anything.
Don't overlook comp.lang.python as a source. Can you answer every problem posted? If not, you've much to learn. And solving them, even if you never reply, is a great learning experience. I try to reply when I think I have an answer, often to be disappointed by someone else's much better answer. But I see such as much for my benefit as for that of the OP. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
