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