Python

[Rascal]

Well I am learning Python and I think the best way to learn is make programs which are away from the tutorials just something different to the examples. Because I personally think creating something from scratch and researching about it is the best way, but I don't have any idea's on what to code apart from the basic's but I would like some suggestions to act upon.I just want to have some ideas to adapt and then create something new for me, mind since I am starting python it is all quiet new.

Thanks

~Rascal

Edited May 15, 2010 by Rascal

[Netshroud]

I made an IRC bot for the sole purpose of learning (some) Python.

Edited May 15, 2010 by Psychosis

[Rascal]

Huh interesting but I wouldn't know where to start with that.

[sablefoxx]

I am in a similar situation, and just wrote a program that encrypts/decrypts text files using the Vigenere Cipher ( http://www.hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16586 ). Why not write a program that cracks my cipher?

Edited May 15, 2010 by sablefoxx

[Rascal]

Ill give it a go.

Edited May 16, 2010 by Rascal

[Zimmer]

Do both. Follow tutorials and code to learn. I just coded to learn and I found my code sometimes awful because I didn't know more efficient ways of doing it (because I already knew away). Or when I started to learn OOP that was a beast.

[Rascal]

Would you say learning OOP in Python really helped with learning the Basics of python or would you say get to grips with python before moving into OOP?

[Zimmer]

It wasn't either, it was wanting to program a GUI, but all of them used Object Orientation. I was going through a podcast called Python411 and one was on OOP, as I listened to that, OOP finally clicked and how it all came together and worked.

[Rascal]

Oh nice. Well I have done a lot of OOP programming back in the past. But At the moment I'm trying to make a a decryption for sable but going 1 step forward and 2 steps back -.-

[Rascal]

Sorry for the double post but, for the people that are struggling to learn python or would like to enhance there skills check out

http://www.diveintopython.org/index.html

You guys probably have seen it before, but for the people who haven't enjoy.

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