Practice Python (PP) Exercise 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
These exercises are great for building confidence with some of the basic tools taught in LPTHW. They are very simple, but can often be solved multiple ways. Usually, when I do these exercises, I try to:
- Solve the problem by any means necessary
- Solve the problem in alternate ways
- Build functions around my solutions
- Build classes around my solutions
Many of these exercises are pretty basic and don’t require functions / classes, but it’s good practice!
Also, one of these exercises (#6) showed me how to iterate over or slice a string. Until this exercise, I hadn’t even realized that was possible. Definitely a useful trick.
Finally, Jeff Knupp’s blog https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/06/18/improve-your-python-python-classes-and-object-oriented-programming/ has proven to be really helpful for some of the more complicated topics (for me) like classes. I definitely recommend checking it out.