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** <b>Project</b>: 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. |
** <b>Project</b>: 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. |
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*** using an API |
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*** command line option parsing |
*** command line option parsing |
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*** reading other people's code |
*** reading other people's code |
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*** working with lists and iteration |
*** working with lists and iteration |
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* [[ColorWall]] |
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** <b>Project</b>: Program graphical effects for a ColorWall using the Tkinter GUI toolkit. |
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*** using functions and classes |
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*** reading other people's code |
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*** working with time and randomness |
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*** working with dictionaries and for loops |
Revision as of 19:39, 8 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
- ColorWall
- Project: Program graphical effects for a ColorWall using the Tkinter GUI toolkit.
- Skills you'll practice:
- using functions and classes
- reading other people's code
- working with time and randomness
- working with dictionaries and for loops