[Tutor] Getting started on programming

[Yigal Duppen]

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> [...] What
> did all of you start writing in Python when you first started out? I'm
> thinking of something semi-challenging (i.e., not something that computes
> 2+2;) that will help me better understand Python and further my knowledge.

Some spanish university has a huge collection of assignments for the ACM 
Programming Competition; while they don't accept Python programs for 
automatic judging, the problems are _great_ for learning the expressiveness 
of basic Python. (At least, they were for me)

Of course, once you get a grasp of expressing complex algorithms in Python, 
these assignments are no longer useful; they never force you to delve into 
the Python libraries, for example. Once you reach that stage, the suggestions 
made by others (games, shell scripts) will help you further

You can find the Problem Archive over here:

http://acm.uva.es/problemset/

(Useless Python contains some solutions in python)

YDD
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