🐍 Python Foundation Week – Practice & Project Pack

Welcome to your Week 1 Python Skill Check! 🎯
After completing basics like variables, loops, conditions, strings, lists, dicts, functions, and file handling — it's time to test what you’ve learned.

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✅ Skill Testing: Practice Problems

🔢 Logic & Syntax Practice

1. Second Largest Number
   Write a function to find the second largest number in a list.
   Input: [23, 45, 12, 67, 45, 89, 67]

2. Check Pangram
   Check if a given string contains all 26 English alphabets.

3. Reverse Each Word (not the sentence)
   Input: "Hello World" → Output: "olleH dlroW"

4. Character Frequency Counter
   Count how many times each character appears in a string using dict.

5. Armstrong Number Checker
   A number is Armstrong if the sum of the cubes of its digits equals the number (e.g., 153).

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🛠️ New Python Project Ideas (No Repeats from Week 1)

🎨 15 Fresh Project Ideas

#	Project	Description
1	Password Strength Checker	Check if password is Weak/Moderate/Strong
2	Grocery Price Tracker	Add, update, and delete groceries + prices
3	Simple Calendar App	Input date and show weekday/weekend
4	Typing Speed Tester	Time user input, calculate WPM + accuracy
5	Expense Splitter App	Calculate per-person bill & who owes whom
6	Flashcard Quiz App	Input Q&A, show one by one, calculate score
7	Random Joke Generator	Print a random joke from a list or JSON
8	Stopwatch / Timer	CLI stopwatch using time module
9	Temperature Converter	Convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin
10	Chat Simulator	Simulate a chatbot using if-else
11	Text Adventure Game	Choose-your-own-path story using nested dicts
12	URL Shortener (Offline)	Map full links to short codes and store them
13	Contact Manager with File I/O	Save/search/delete contacts in JSON or TXT
14	Quiz Grader from CSV	Grade answers from student vs answer key
15	Mood Tracker App	Daily mood + reason stored in CSV or TXT

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🎁 Bonus Projects (Optional Challenges)

#	Project	Description
16	Caesar Cipher Tool	Encrypt and decrypt text by shifting letters
17	Color Theme Generator	Input a color → generate matching RGB shades

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🧰 How to Submit

• ✅ Create a new folder: week1_projects/your_name/
• ✅ Add each project as a .py file (with comments)
• ✅ Add screenshots (if any output is visual)
• ✅ Create a README.md with:
  • Project title
  • Description
  • What you learned
  • Sample Input/Output

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🙌 Let's Build & Share!

Push your code to the GitHub repo:

https://github.com/NeuroByte-Society/weekend_projects

Make your first pull request and show your progress! 🚀