Programming exercises/challenges

[Ken]

How about this:  http://www.pythonchallenge.com/

<btkuhn at email.unc.edu> wrote in message 
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> 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