>From this noob's perspective, I'd say take a look at Magnus Lie Hetland's Beginning Python<http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Python-Novice-Professional/dp/159059519X>book. It covers the core syntax (which it sounds like you're familiar with already) and then includes a bunch of projects, from text processing to cgi programming to remote file editing and basic game programming. Granted, you can find a lot of these examples as freeware, but I guess you stand to learn plenty by extending the code he provides.
Good luck! Serdar T. On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:32 PM, fprintf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Serdar Tumgoren The Record 150 River Street Hackensack, NJ 07601 201-403-0834 [EMAIL PROTECTED] northjersey.com
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