I have been playing with computers since I first learned to program moving shapes on an Atari 800XL in BASIC. After many years of dabbling in programming languages as a hobbyist (I am not a computer scientist or other IT professional), I have never found a way to stick with a language far enough to do anything useful. I learn all about loops and data structures and functions/methods etc. but never get to create a program that will do anything of value that I can't more easily do via freeware. Well, except the slot car timing system I wrote in C++ for Linux many moons ago.
Honestly Python seems like a breath of fresh air and possibly a way to get back to my BASIC roots, you know, programming just for the fun of it. Since I don't have a specific problem to solve, besides Pythonchallenge (which I found very cryptic), and Project Euler (which I found beyond my mathematics skills), is there a place to go for increasingly difficult problems to solve? I have followed a number of the recommended online tutorials that contain a logical progression of problems and yet they all end at the point where a person has enough knowledge of the syntax, but not really enough to do anything. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
