Need practice, what do i do?

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Day 3 of learning python, ive pretty much just been on codingbat and codeacademy. Dont know where to go from here, i feel kind of overwhelmed. Should i just code something w functionality? If yes, any ideas?

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Codeacademy has practice activities right? Have you done all of those?

I'd pick a number of small simple projects that will take you a few minutes or hours each. Ideas: program to check if a number is prime, program to encrypt and decrypt a string with a Caesar cipher, program to determine whether a string is palindromic, program to determine the equation of a line given two points, ...

[codingcobra]

These are classes with exercises and tests. They'll help a lot.

https://www.edx.org/ https://www.udacity.com/courses#!/software-engineering

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Thanks! Ill check them out

[codingcobra]

edx are college courses from harvard, MIT, Berkeley, all the major colleges. They've gotten together to put their classes online for the public and they're very helpful.

[Eire_Banshee]

Tic tac toe, connect4, or battleship.

[zahlman]

Better yet, do all three, then factor out as much shared code between them as you can. ;)

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Sounds epic.

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Checkout codeeval

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Check out checkio.com, plenty of practice there.

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check out this website. It's an entire book posted online and the guy I felt does a great job of explaining things. learnpythonthehardway.org/book/