Exercises for dive into python

[Ben Edwards (lists)]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 23:16 +0200, Tal Einat wrote:
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>         > I recently gave a Python crash-course in my company, and ran
>         into the same 
>         > problem. There are many good Python tutorials, manuals,
>         references etc., most
>         > are accompannied by various code examples, but there are
>         very few exercises. I
>         > had a hard time collecting and inventing a few good
>         exercises, about 12 in all. 
>         >
>         > There are probably some good exercises out there, but they
>         seem to be relatviely
>         > hard to find. Maybe they should be collected and organized
>         at Python.org?
>         
>         That sounds like an exelent idea.  Maybe the way to structure
>         it is my 
>         book/chapter.
>  
> You probably meant "by book/chapter".
>  
> Well, that would be fine, but it's up to whoever wrote "dive into
> Python" to update it.
> I was actually suggesting a central repository for Python exercises,
> all in the public domain, so that they could be used by anyone
> learning or teaching Python (or programming in general).

I don't think this is necessarily the case.  I am fairly sure the
problem is not the people writing books do not have a way of publishing
the excesses, its just they have hot the time or inclination to do so.

what I was suggesting was a wiki type site where exercises could be
worked on collaboratively.  The authors should not have a problem with
this as it would add value to there work and make it more desirable.

Ben

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>         > I think building a large collection of good Python exercises
>         could help both
>         > those teaching Python and those learning it. Also, gathering
>         a set of Python 
>         > exercises for those learning general programming concepts
>         (variables, functions,
>         > object-oriented, etc.) could help spread the use of Python
>         for teaching
>         > programming.

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