[Tutor] help!

[Daniel Yoo]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Lee Hunter wrote:

> > Daniel Yoo wrote:
> 
> > Also, if you want, we can suggest sample problems for you to try out, to
> > solidify your knowledge of Python.  Tell us more about your interests ---
> 
> Actually, I've been looking for some sample problems. Any suggestions would
> be much appreciated.

Dear Lee,

I ran into a document that talked about a comparison between popular
computer languages.  As a benchmark, the author asked many people to write
a "Phonecode" program that would transform a telephone number into a set
of all legal words from a large dictionary.

The contest was over by the time I heard of it, but I thought, "What the
heck, why not?"  It was a hard program to write, but by the time I
finished, I had my Python syntax down cold.  *grin*

Phonecode is fun to write, and it's nontrivial.  The link to the paper is
here:

    http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprtTR.ps.gz