[Tutor] newbie programmer

[Mike Wagman]

Off the top of my head as one relative newbie to another I would reprint
the entire menu everytime an option was chosen, and see if there were a
way to clear the screen. Don't know if it will work - do know
interactive python is a great way to "play with code"

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:47, Dustin Phillips wrote:
> I checked out the useless python website and it is great, it has some really
> interesting challenges that I can practice with.  I am attempting to take on
> one of these challenges and a question immediately came up.  I am trying to
> create a dos based menu driven application, but I was wondering what is the
> most efficient way to implement a menu system?  I started out using several
> print statements, but I plan on linking the main menu to submenus and so on
> which will get very cumbersome.  How can I make the menus more modular?
> Should I save the menu entries into a dictionary?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dustin Phillips" <python-tutor@ev1.net>
> To: "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld@blueyonder.co.uk>; <python-tutor@mail.ev1.net>;
> <tutor@python.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] newbie programmer
> 
> 
> > Thanks for the insight and suggestions, I will check out the useless
> python
> > sight right away.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld@blueyonder.co.uk>
> > To: <python-tutor@mail.ev1.net>; <tutor@python.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Tutor] newbie programmer
> >
> >
> > > > just wondering what sort of real world things I can do with
> > > > python?
> > >
> > > Games, Graphics, Scientific numerical simulations, etc.
> > > THere used to even be a web browser written in Python,
> > > there is also a graphics program(like Visio).
> > >
> > > Try searching sourceforge to see what open source projects
> > > are underway using Python.
> > >
> > > With ,more experience you can even join one of the project
> > > teams...
> > >
> > > Oh yes, And the IDLE development tool that comes with
> > > Python is written in Python...
> > >
> > > > anyone have any advice or suggestions?
> > >
> > > For some fun small projects check out the "Useless Python"
> > > website, which is far from useless...
> > >
> > > Alan G
> > > Author of the Learn to Program web tutor
> > > http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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