Programming exercises/challenges

[btkuhn at email.unc.edu]

Hi guys,

I'm learning Python by teaching myself, and after going through several 
tutorials I feel like I've learned the basics. Since I'm not taking a 
class or anything, I've been doing challenges/programs to reinforce the 
material and improve my skills. I started out with stuff like "Guess my 
number" games, hangman, etc. and moved on to making poker and card 
games to work with classes. For GUIs I created games like minesweeper, 
and a GUI stock portfolio tracker. I am out of ideas and am looking for 
programming projects, challenges, or programs that have helped you'll 
learn. I'm working on the project Euler problems, but I find that they 
don't really help my programming skills; they are more math focused. 
Suggestions? What has been useful or interesting to you? I'd also 
welcome sources of textbook type problems, because the ones provided in 
tutorials tend to be repetitive.

Thanks,
Ben