TBH, I think that the first thing that I did that made me feel that I could hold my own was when I had my first (and only thus far) patch accepted into the stdlib. To me, there's a /big/ difference between throwing together a package that a few people may find useful and putting a patch together that's accepted by a particular module expert and committed to the stdlib.
To intermediate learners, I would strongly advocate getting their hands dirty with some part of the stdlib. Really (imho), there's really no better place to learn. Yes, in whole, it's a large project, but there are quite a few small(er) modules that, once their environment is set up, are self-contained and easy to follow along. Even if they don't get anything committed, learning from Python experts is far more useful than any other path that I've personally taken. Having said that, another great learning experience for me was when I wrote my OAuth 2.0 client (https://github.com/demianbrecht/sanction) and brought the initial implementation (460'ish LoC) to 66 LoC (pre-2/3 support). In part, this was due to taking a different design approach, but it was also in part due to taking advantage of Python idioms rather than simply using approaches that I had used in other languages. On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to come up with more project ideas for intermediate > learners, somewhat along the lines of > http://bit.ly/intermediate-python-projects . > > So here's a question for people who remember coming up from beginner: as you > moved from exercises like those in Learn Python the Hard Way, up to your own > self-guided work on small projects, what project were you working on that > made you feel independent and skilled? What program first felt like your > own work rather than an exercise the teacher had assigned? > > I don't want anything too large, but big enough that there's room for > design, and multiple approaches, etc. > > Thanks in advance! > > --Ned. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Demian Brecht http://demianbrecht.github.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
