Python Training

Collection of bite-sized Python exercises to test common concepts and applications of the language.

This package is heavily inspired by the rustlings project. Although python-training cannot overlap entirely with rustlings, many of its ideas, philosophies, and applications can be seen across both projects.

Getting Started

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# install package
pip install python-training

# pull latest version from GitHub
git clone https://github.com/lucas-nelson-uiuc/python-training.git

Completing Exercises

All chapters have a list of topics with exercises for the user to complete and can be found under each chapter's folder (topics/<chapter>/exercises). Each subtopic is its own script, containing a collection of TODO prompts for the user to complete. An example of a simple exercise looks like such:

def name_of_problem():
    # TODO: instructions for solving the problem
    solution = ...
    return solution

The following feature is in-progress

For all problems, the solution can be found tracing the same path in the solutions folder (solutions/<chapter>/topic). If you need to review the solution for a problem(s), rather than opening the file yourself, you can use the command line argument pt --hint to get a hint for the problem(s) requested.

# requesting a hint for a problem
pt --hint <topic_name>
pt --hint <topic_name>[<problem_name>]

# example: requesting a hint for the string problems
pt --hint strings

# example: requesting a hint for the string concatenation problem
pt --hint strings[string_concatenation]

TODO

• Command line interface

• Integrate tests for package

  • setup can correctly create folders

  • solutions correctly answers respective question(s)

• Finish setting up GitHub repository for contributing/using

Contributing

See link to Contributing.md