Wayne, What he says he is looking for is a programming challenge. Unfortunately, the fact that he feels he is not "computer illiterate" does not tell us what he does know and what he needs to spend considerable time learning. Jerry, There is a web page called "Challenge-You" set up for novice to advanced novice to learn and to hone already learned skills. It is generic enough for any language. There are some Lisp devotees working through the problems. My comfortable language is C++, but I have been playing with Python for almost 3 weeks and I am loving it. Remember this, GOOGLE is your friend. This news group is for when you can't find what you need on Google. Below is a relatively simple challenge I think you should use to sharpen your Python teeth (skills if you prefer). ****************************************************************************************************************************** Using the Fibonacci numbers (starting at 1), the prime numbers (starting at 2), and the positive integers (starting at 1), the product of the correlating values would look like this: F(i) * P(i) * I(i) = 1*2*1, 1*3*2, 2*5*3, 3*7*4, ... Find the sum of the first 100 correlating products. (in the example of 4 above, the answer would be 122) ****************************************************************************************************************************** I am assuming your math background has already acquainted you with both Fibonacci series and Prime series. If not, or you need to review, check out Wikipedia. Write a well structured plan to solve the problem. Then use Google, and the excellent tutorial suggested by Wayne to began defining the python methodologies to build your lists. Feel free to ask questions as you go, but please, please, do not start with "I'm stumped." Show us what you've done, suggest what you think should happen, and ask, if you can, very specific questions about very specific problems you are having. You will be amazed at the quality of help you will get from this group as long as you are willing to show what you have accomplished. Best of luck. Robert Berman W W wrote: A quick google search for "Python tutorial" will yeild several results. I recommend "Think Python" - http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ HTH, Wayne On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Jeremiah Stack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hello everybody: I am new to this mailing list, and it said that i could the simplest of questions. So i was wondering if anyone could be so kind as to e-mail me a project idea or something to go out an learn to do in python. I don't know any languages, but i am definitely not computer illiterate. i have read so many tutorial about getting started but so far that is where the tutorial have left me ( how to print "Hello World") and such. Any ideas great thanks. ________________________________ Making the world a better place one message at a time. Check out the i'm Talkathon. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor |
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