Intermediate Python Workshop/Projects

• Scrabble challenge
  • Project: implement a scrabble solver that will tell you the best Scrabble words given a particular Scrabble rack.
  • 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