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[dit]

I want to start something small, like a learning program. I've been
looking and learning python for about 4 months; and I think that I have
the basics under my belt... is it worth trying my own project, or is it
better to continue with the py tutes?

Also if I was to start, how do I pose myself the question of what am I
actually trying to achieve / what am I trying to make?
any comments and suggestions welcome.

//dit\\\

[Istvan Albert]

dit wrote:

Also if I was to start, how do I pose myself the question of what am I
actually trying to achieve / what am I trying to make?

Find some fun projects and try to duplicate them, reinvent the wheel
here and there. You'll do it anyway so get it out of your system.

Write your own webserver, chat or blog software. Implement a
compression algorithm, write an image viewer or a text editor.

You'll learn a lot in the meantime.

Istvan.

[Yannick Turgeon]

If you like problem solving, you could go there, in "Archive":
http://ipsc.ksp.sk/

It will probably be more thinking than coding but use python to solve those
problems and time will fly away!
dit wrote:

I want to start something small, like a learning program. I've been
looking and learning python for about 4 months; and I think that I have
the basics under my belt... is it worth trying my own project, or is it
better to continue with the py tutes?

Also if I was to start, how do I pose myself the question of what am I
actually trying to achieve / what am I trying to make?
any comments and suggestions welcome.

//dit\\\

[Anna Martelli Ravenscroft]

dit wrote:

I want to start something small, like a learning program. I've been
looking and learning python for about 4 months; and I think that I have
the basics under my belt... is it worth trying my own project, or is it
better to continue with the py tutes?
Yes. Start coding some of your own stuff. You'll find all new questions
(and answers) when you do.
Also if I was to start, how do I pose myself the question of what am I
actually trying to achieve / what am I trying to make?

Think about some project you'd really like to have automated. Then think
about the following questions:

What would you get from it? What kind of output would you want? What
kind of input (one time, maintenance, adding, deleting)would you want to
do? Do you want gui or commandline? Would you want it to work
crossplatform? Or just on one machine?

If you've got those answered (at least a start of the answer), then you
can start working on the project itself...

HTH,
Anna