Re: [Pythoncard-users] What Project is a good one to start on?

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

Andy Todd wrote:

> The usual answer is to scratch your own itch. If you're looking to
>
>improve your knowledge and ability with PythonCard then I'd suggest 
>starting with a small application that helps you out. For me it was an 
>address book (which I'm not releasing because it wasn't very good) and 
>then I moved on to a database query tool which became the dbBrowser sample.
>
>If you're building something that you want and/or need then it becomes 
>much more than a learning exercise and you'll be better for the experience.
>  
>
Also, it's generally more difficult to learn too many different things 
at the same time, so try to pick an area where you already know some of 
the other parts, so it's (mostly) PythonCard that you are learning 
(and/or Python and/or wxPython).

For instance,  if you have already written some apps that analyze some 
data without a GUI - is there some aspect of the data that would benefit 
from being visualized ?  - so you could re-use your knowledge of how to 
read and handle the data.

Or - if you really want some suggestions "out of the blue"

 - pick some simple game and try that. (e.g. minesweeper - not Chess !!)
 - do something with a database (I never touch them myself, so have no 
specific suggestions :-)
 - spell checker (i.e. a PythonCard front-end to an existing checker)
        (or a spell checker for PythonCard resource files ??)
 - extend the findfiles tool to find and replace

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