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Trying to complete all projects from Martyr2’s Mega Project List.<p>Note: If you fork this repo to solve these projects in any language of your choice, please remove all my code, and start from scratch; you'll benefit a lot. Do not send pull requests.<p>Some details:<p>I will use Python to solve these. Why? Because I want to learn the language quickly. I have no interest in making games, so I'm excluding those from the list below. I'm not interested in networking, so I might skip all (or some) of them. The projects will not be made in the order posted. I may not be able to complete all of them. My method of solving them may not be the best. I will link to each project that I complete. Some will be in this same repo, some bigger ones will have dedicated repos.<p>To get started, fork this repo, delete this README and rename README-scratch.md to README.md.<p>Note: I have't read any problem while creating this repo. I'll read them as I start solving the problems. Hence, there is no prior filtering of problems. Keeps things spicy. :)

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I had never heard of Marty2's list and wish I had when I was learning to program. Seems like an invaluable resource for anyone learning to code because coming up with a project idea was a huge stone block (for me at least).

Here is a link to the list: http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/78802-martyr2s-mega-...

Looks like we've killed the site, here is a mirror via the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20120809050719/http://www.dreamin... (couldn't see the live site, so this may be updated)

The OP github readme also has the list, albiet with completed solutions highlighted.

Or, you know, fork the repo. It;s in md format.

I think you missed the point of the "Find PI to the Nth Digit" exercise. You aren't generating pi, you're just using a pre-computed value.

Considering they are learning python, and the prompt says to generate the value of Pi, this is a great chance to introduce generators[1], the yield statement, and the itertools[2] module to someone.

Of course, in my version, I'd generate the value of Tau.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102535/what-can-you-use-p...

[2] http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html

You're right. I'll change the code.

Interesting. http://projecteuler.net/ Also has lots of problems for new coders. Though, they are more math oriented and focused on algorithms.

This looks like a great way to get comfortable with a new language. Thank you for posting this.

You may also enjoy http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code. They have hundreds of smaller problems which you can solve in your favourite language.

going to try this out myself, does anyone have a good tutorial for a newbie on python GUI programming? something i could use for things like the ftp program, chat app etc...

as far as my background goes sophmore in college self taught python.Know java, some c from classes but i've never done any GUI work.

Give PyQt a spin. Or, if you use GNOME/Ubuntu Unity on Linux, try PyGTK.

EDIT: forgot to mention, both PyQt and PyGTK have decent tutorials on their website. You could also use Tkinter, which comes with Python and runs everywhere, but IMHO it looks terrible.

Check out http://kivy.org/

try http://www.wxpython.org :]

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lists of tools and frameworks: http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming

question raised in SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/115495/is-python-any-good...

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