[Tutor] Calendar question

[Jacob S.]

> Also, I have been looking for some exercises to do using Python, obviously 
> (and unfortunately) they need to be at a beginner level. Or better if 
> anyone wants to send me one to do I would be very grateful

I know a few exercises -- those that I have done. Some are beginner, some 
are difficult.
Use your discretion...

1) Make a program to compute the areas of several figures. Make it display a 
menu on startup,         ask for a choice, and then compute the area of the 
figure chosen by asking for dimensions.

2) Good at math? Make a library module with three functions. First 
function --  calculate the             derivative of a function passed as a 
parameter at a particular point. Should return float.  Second 
    function -- calculate definite integral; function, lower bound, and 
upper bound passed as                 parameters Should return float.  Third 
function -- find the zeros of a function passed as a              parameter. 
## This is more difficult

3) Make a cute little joke -- How to keep a blonde busy. (Press enter) -- it 
loops forever

4) Make another script similiar to #1 using volumes instead of areas

5) Combine script one and script four

6) Use the os module to make a copy module that copies files -- similiar to, 
but with less                 functionality than shutil

7) Use the calender module to get the day of week function -- make the user 
input a date - parse     the date, and return the day of the week. An extra 
to advance it a little. Use regular expressions     to have any non-digit 
seperator.

8) Use the random module and a fibonacci sequence to generate long numbers 
that you can             seemingly  "memorize"  i.e. 
random.randint(10,100)  gives you say...  45... then the number 
would be 459437077415617853...  strip off the tens digit when you add.

9) Make a library module containing functions such as get greatest common 
denominator of a             sequence; lowest common multiple; factors of an 
integer; etc.

10) Download an extension package such as VPython or something and make a 
function grapher -       - try making it a little more advanced than their 
example in the docs....

11) Make a grade program for teachers that asks for a grade, prints the 
percentage for that                 grade, and prints the percentage of the 
class i.e. average all of the grades for each grade                 added.

12) Use random to create a lottery scenario.

13) Make a simple word counter that takes a file name, open the file and 
split by whitespace and         get length of resulting list


If you have any questions at all, run out of ideas, or these are too 
difficult, or something else, just ask. ;-)

Jacob