On Thu, 18 May 2006, Chris Delgado wrote: > Kent, > > So if you have just been reading, I suggest you try writing a few small > programs as warmups." > > I think you are right on the money here. I need to write some more > simple stuff.
Chris, I'd also suggest that, once you have a few toy programs (like your coin-tosser) under your belt, you find some *small* task that you actually want to accomplish, and use Python for that. It's both motivating and satisfying to address some real-life need you have, rather than some arbitrary assignment from a book. I think my very first Python program was to do something like take a comma-separated list of MP3 files, with the directory name in a form that includes artist name and album or collection, and format it as a hierarchical list, because I wanted to see it that way. It was more fun to work on a program that actually did something I wanted, and I had a purpose in writing it beyond just learning Python. (Of course, I look back at that code now, and it sure is ugly; but it worked!) _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
