practice programs

[Tupoi]

"Raymond Hettinger" <vze4rx4y at verizon.net> wrote in message
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> From: "Tupoi" <EDB30 at msn.com>
> > any ideas for programms a begginer might try writing to help hone his
> skills
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> A spell checker might be useful ;)
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> Some classic exercises are:
> -- prime number generator (3,5,7,11, and 13 are prime; 9 is an anomaly)
> -- Markov sentence generation
> -- mail merge (table of fields inserted in to text with place holders)
> -- key word in context (search google for KWIC index)
> -- shuffle a deck and evaluate a blackjack hand
> -- use introspection and metaclasses to write a native Python compiler
> (okay, maybe not).
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> Raymond Hettinger
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Whats a markov sentence generation