[Tutor] Re: Ideas for beginning programs? (original) (raw)

mjekl mjekl at clix.pt
Fri Jul 30 22:36:03 CEST 2004

Bryan Fields <bryan unitedgaribay.com> writes:

My question to the list is: Can anyone present me with some good ideas for programs to write using the concepts I have studied so far?

1 - Guesser: You can make python generate a random number for you if you import the random module. If you're not confortable with modules - it's easy as Py!

import from import

And it's at your command! Just think of a module as a file with function or class definitions that you can call into your programs to use at will (basically that's all I'm able to tell you since I'm a newbie)

If you don't want to use modules. You can make a list with many numbers and use it as the source for your (not very) secret number!

2 - Expand Guesser: Instead as having the prg ask you for a number. Have two players, the computer against human. Each defining a secret number and the other one guessing. Make a menu. Print results. This one can get pretty complex if you don't make it very structured.

3 - Write a program that gives asks you for temperature and the scale (Celcius / Farenheit) and then gives you the corresponding temperatures in (Farenheit / Celcius).

4 - Make a phone book using nested lists (or list and tuples)! Use a menu to search a phone number by name or vice-versa

5 - Make a phone book using a simple list! Use a menu to search a phone number by name or vice-versa

Compare these phonebooks with a phonebook made with a dictionary Make a version of Guesser using OOP

Some tutorials on the net with example programs/tasks:

Going to try some of these myself ;-) Best regards, mjekl

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