Rascal Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 (edited) I made an IRC bot for the sole purpose of learning (some) Python. Edited May 15, 2010 by Psychosis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted May 15, 2010 Author Share Posted May 15, 2010 Huh interesting but I wouldn't know where to start with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sablefoxx Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted May 15, 2010 Author Share Posted May 15, 2010 (edited) Ill give it a go. Edited May 16, 2010 by Rascal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimmer Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted May 16, 2010 Author Share Posted May 16, 2010 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimmer Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted May 16, 2010 Author Share Posted May 16, 2010 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 -.- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted May 17, 2010 Author Share Posted May 17, 2010 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. 5/5 book AMAZING! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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