On 2013-07-16, John Ladasky <john_lada...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > So, what I am seeking are suggestions for programming > assignments that I can give to brand-new students of Python. > Please keep in mind that none of them are even up to the task > of a simple algorithm like Bubble Sort -- at least, not yet.
One of the first satisfying programs I wrote as a child autodidact on my Commodore 64 was a random name generator. There are lots of workable strategies and the output can be fun. Hint: Putting together random syllables turned out to be much more fun than random consonants and vowels. Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from somewhere. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
