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The exercises form Python the Hard Way tutorial

Python The Hard Way by Zed A. Shaw (Python 2.7 version)

Overview

These are the exercises from Python the Hard Way by Zed Shaw. This is a well-taught introduction to Python. It really does a thorough job of explaining syntax, and to some extent, helps the student with good learning discipline. The last few excercises get quite involved, and introduce the idea of unit testing. I didn't complete the final exercise, as didn't want to get the game online.

• I've used venv for the later exercises, where pip is being used to install things
• On OSX, I found that I needed to use nosetests --exe to get nose to detect all of the tests