Intermediate Python Workshop/Projects

• 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
• Flash card challenge
  • Project: implement a flash card quizzer from scratch.
  • 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 while loops
    • working with randomness
• 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