Project for newbie

[Glenn Rogers]

In article <14110.12533.232498.655489 at amarok.cnri.reston.va.us>, 
Andrew M. Kuchling wrote:
>Pete Jewell writes:
>>I've read my way through the tutorial, and am now stuck - where do I go
>>from here?  I want to learn how to use Python, but don't have any
>>pressing projects at the moment - can anyone suggest a program I should
>>have a go at writing, to help me learn the language further?
>
>	Having third parties provide ideas usually doesn't result in
>anything interesting.  I have a list of projects on my Web page, but
>they're all extremely unlikely to appeal to anyone who isn't me (and
>even I'm a bit cool on some of them).
>
For what it's worth, my first project (5ish months ago) was an internet-utility 
type thing: opening/closing connection, timing the period online, getting a 
list of mail waiting for me, telling me when I've stopped getting news etc.  
My second one was for work doing the same sort of thing over a telnet
connection.  Then several simple text filtering/processing utilities, and 
I'm now doing something that started life as an addressbook (storing in a 
database) but has now got rather more ambitious.

What did everyone else do?


-- 
Glenn the Gazelle