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I have definitely seen a few other guys on HN posting about this as well. I think one of the commenters in this thread is another such person.

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I graduated from a college in Kenya with a Computer Science degree. I understand OOP and other programming concepts but I feel I do not know enough when compared to my friends in the United States or other European countries. In college we mostly coded basic applications in either Vb.Net or C#. I am trying to become a better hacker by learning JS, C and Python. I am however finding it difficult as I cannot find projects that have bugs small enough for me to fix. I will be glad if someone could point me in the right direction

First just write some small little tool in python. I need a command line tool that will parse a website and write it out as a database record.

eg: http://www.tourdust.com/products/844-atlas-mountain-sahara-d...

I need to get that and write it to a database with its fields like description, photo, cost, number of people etc.

Let me know if your interested. In return I can answer guide you becoming a better hacker ie, what you should read, questions on C,Python etc ...

But one warning - in the end its just about sitting in front a computer building something till its done. :)

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