On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 16:39 +0000, Tal Einat wrote: > Ben Edwards (lists <lists <at> videonetwork.org> writes: > > > > > Have been working through Dive Into Python which is excellent. My only > > problem is that there are not exercises. I find exercises are a great > > way of helping stuff sink in and verifying my learning. Has anyone done > > such a thing? > > > > Ben > > > > > I recently gave a Python crash-course in my company, and ran into the same > problem. There are many good Python tutorials, manuals, references etc., most > are accompannied by various code examples, but there are very few exercises. I > had a hard time collecting and inventing a few good exercises, about 12 in > all. > > There are probably some good exercises out there, but they seem to be > relatviely > hard to find. Maybe they should be collected and organized at Python.org?
That sounds like an exelent idea. Maybe the way to structure it is my book/chapter. > > I think building a large collection of good Python exercises could help both > those teaching Python and those learning it. Also, gathering a set of Python > exercises for those learning general programming concepts (variables, > functions, > object-oriented, etc.) could help spread the use of Python for teaching > programming. I think there is little doubt about this. The reason I liked the 'Thinking in Java' book was it had 10 exercises at the end of each chapter. I would not more onto a chapter until I had completed them all. Ben > > - Tal > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
