Hello! I’m a beginner to Python and would like a more solid understanding of the programming language. Does anyone have any suggestions for programs I could try to recreate? My most recent project was an algorithm to solve the quadratic equation.
Thank you for the help in advance!
Very much depends on your situation, but if something generic for beginner:
The most sensible way I suppose is just use it for what you actually need.
Find problems in uni/work that are most interesting to you and see if you can have fun with them and Python.
Or if you have none of those you can try playing with sympy library.
Or try some of the books such as https://automatetheboringstuff.com or similar.
Dear Hyena001,
If you have a thing for math there are any number of geometric formulas you could program in. Finding and listing all the prime numbers between 2 and 1,000 might be another. I assume you have found and worked through some ‘free tutorials’ which introduces one to things like loops, decision making, print statements, etc. etc. etc.
A program for converting measurements from metric to American might be another project.
Have you started learning how to use tkinter yet? Tkinter allows one to make GUI type programs. It also allows one to draw graphs. Text boxes to display things on the screen. Data entry boxes for putting numbers (or text) into the program.
I recently wrote a little program that (using tkinter) puts a graphic of a sphere in the top half of the window then a text box saying “Enter a radius” followed by a data entry box for entering the radius and finally a ‘Solve’ button which then allows the program to compute the surface area and the volume of the sphere and display both. (Data entry checking is a must to keep the program from crashing.)
By the way, did your quadratic equation algorithm give one imaginary numbers for answers where some instructors would want ‘no solution’ for the answer?