>> What kind of real life problems are you interested in? You might like > > I am a parttime sys admin so I want system admin problem which usually I > do through shell scripts like parsing logs, generating reports, greping > with regexes etc.
My tutor is specifdically targetted at computer power users invcluding sys admins. It has examples of parsing files and creating reports (albeit very simple ones since its for beginners) and using regex. It also has side bars on topics like using WSH on Windows and other OS specific topics. There are also specific topics on using the OS and IPC comms etc being written. > The only thing I don't want is silly problems like generate fibonnacci > series, add numbers frm 0-n etc. non required silly stuff. None of the above are silly stuff, they are all needed in various real world computing and scientific problems. However I do agree that they are not what most beginners will be doing and I try to avoid any math type exercises. (I do use factorials as an example of recursion alongside another more practical example) I don't think my tutor was in your list so you might like to give it a go... Alan G Author of the learn to program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
