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Cedar  ·  3335 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 7, 2015

Best way to learn is to think of a problem you want to solve and try your hand at it. It doesn't have to be a complete program, or website, or service, just focus on one aspect of it and use your existing knowledge to model it the best you can.

We had a subject study session last week where we had to simulate an average speed check, taking a license plate and the times recorded entering and leaving the monitored section of road; this was pretty trivial to get going but it was a nice challenge for someone who has rarely used Python and can be extended to make it more difficult.