I like the euler project On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor@python.org> wrote: > On 08/05/16 18:14, monik...@netzero.net wrote: > >> Can you please recommend a free web class or site that offers >> lots of coding exercises in python, > > Have you tried the Python Challenge web site? > >> ... intermediate and advanced AND provides solutions. > > The challenge site gets pretty advanced as you progress but > there is usually an easy(ish) and a hard solution and you > don't get shown a "correct" one - because correct doesn't > make any real sense - you just know you got the right > answer when you make it to the next level. > > But it certainly helps you grow as a Python programmer > and it especially gets you familiar with the library. > >> I need more practice. > > Often the best practice is to do. > Just pick a real project and wade in. > >> All the classes I have taken or looked at do not provide >> enough exercises (with solutions) to retain the info. > > I'm always wary of "solutions". They can only ever be the > authors best attempt but there will always be other, > equally legitimate solutions. In my recent book I took > pains to make the point that the "solutions" were only > one possible way of doing it and if a reader did it > another way that was probably fine too. > > I know a lot of people like exercises (and solutions) > in books and tats why I provide them, but personally > I've never done them in any programming book I've > read (and that means dozens), instead I solve my > own problems, even ones I've already solved in > other languages... > > You will always learn far more from real world problem > solving than from, any artificial exercise/solution. > > -- > Alan G > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld > Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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