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** <b>Project</b>: implement a scrabble solver that will tell you the best Scrabble words given a particular Scrabble rack. |
** <b>Project</b>: implement a scrabble solver that will tell you the best Scrabble words given a particular Scrabble rack. Great for cheating at Words with Friends! |
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** <b>Skills you'll practice</b>: |
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*** breaking down a problem and solving it in Python from scratch |
*** breaking down a problem and solving it in Python from scratch |
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Revision as of 21:10, 4 July 2012
- Scrabble challenge
- Project: implement a scrabble solver that will tell you the best Scrabble words given a particular Scrabble rack. Great for cheating at Words with Friends!
- Skills you'll practice:
- breaking down a problem and solving it in Python from scratch
- command line option parsing
- reading from files
- working with dictionaries and for loops
- Twitter
- Project: Use the Twitter API to write the basic parts of a Twitter client. See what your friends are tweeting, get trending topics, search tweets, and more.
- Skills you'll practice:
- Using an API
- command line option parsing
- reading other people's code
- working with lists and iteration