Beginner Python Practice? [closed]

Answer 1

I always find it easier to learn a language in a specific problem domain. You might try looking at Django and doing the tutorial. This will give you a very light-weight intro to both Python and to a web framework (a very well-documented one) that is 100% Python.

Then do something in your field(s) of expertise -- graph generation, or whatever -- and tie that into a working framework to see if you got it right. My universe tends to be computational linguistics and there are a number of Python-based toolkits to help get you started. E.g. Natural Language Toolkit.

Just a thought.

Answer 2

You may be interested in Python interactive tutorial for begginers and advance users , it has many available practices together with interactive interface + advance development tricks for advance users.

Answer 3

I found python in 1988 and fell in love with it. Our group at work had been dissolved and we were looking for other jobs on site, so I had a couple of months to play around doing whatever I wanted to. I spent the time profitably learning and using python. I suggest you spend time thinking up and writing utilities and various useful tools. I've got 200-300 in my python tools library now (can't even remember them all). I learned python from Guido's tutorial, which is a good place to start (a C programmer will feel right at home).

python is also a great tool for making models -- physical, math, stochastic, etc. Use numpy and scipy. It also wouldn't hurt to learn some GUI stuff -- I picked up wxPython and learned it, as I had some experience using wxWidgets in C++. wxPython has some impressive demo stuff!

Answer 4

Try Project Euler:

Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.

The problem is:

Add all the natural numbers below 1000 that are multiples of 3 or 5.

This question will probably introduce you to Python for-loops and the range() builtin function in the least. It might lead you to discover list comprehensions, or generator expressions and the sum() builtin function.