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

[Lance H. <lh...@ha...>]

Alex,

Thanks for the suggestions. I am new to Python and Pythoncard so 
anything I do will be new to me.

As Andy suggested I have started to scratch and itch with an app that I 
found lacking and want to improve.

I am sure you will all get used to me asking questions :-)

Thanks

Lance

Alex Tweedly wrote:
> 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
>