Practice pieces

As you go through the course, you may find you want some example projects to cut your teeth on, but for which you can find some hints and/or answers. This page supplies some of these.

1. Lecture: Introduction
   Hello you! – printing from the keyboard.
2. Lecture: Variables
   Numbers – maths from the keyboard.
3. Lecture: Containers
   String search – finding words based on punctuation.
4. Lecture: Branching & loops
   Rabbits – using loops for population models.
5. Lecture: Functions
   Encryption – using functions to encrypt and decrypt.
6. Lecture: Classes
   Classes - agent class heirarchy.
7. Lecture: I/O
   Synthetic landscapes – rather than reading data, make your own.
8. Lecture: Modules
   Modules – doing statistics with the standard library.
9. Lecture: Wrapping up
   Coupling & cohesion – refactor and restructure a script.

If you've done the lecture on the web and GUIs, you might also like to try:

1. Web – hunting for n-grams.
2. GUIs – drawing on a GUI.